Diseases of the dog and their treatment (1911) (14598413827)

Identifier: diseasesofdogthe00ml (find matches)
Title: Diseases of the dog and their treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Müller, Georg Alfred, 1851-1923 Glass, Alexander
Subjects: Horses Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Alexander Eger
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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puppies,and it is usually confined to the cutaneous covering growing over theanus (atresia ani), or it may be the rectum is only partially developedand it ends in a blind sac some distance from the rectum (atresia ani etrecti). In these cases, the faeces are not passed and an artificial openingmust be made. The treatment is to cut the skin with a small knife, andthe edge of the wound sewed back, so as to prevent it from uniting again; IMPERFORATE ANUS 79 but if it is found that the lower bowel is entirely occluded, it is betterto destroy the puppy. But if treatment is to l)e tried as in a particularlyvaluable puppy, we can make a cross incision and by means of the indexfinger we locate the l^lind end of the floating colon then, l)y means of theforceps, draw it to the surface, open it and stitch the edges around theanal opening, as in an ordinary wound. Infiammation of the Anal Pouches.—These glands are located on bothsides of the anus, lying between the anus and the mucous membrane.
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Fig. 38.—Inflammation of the anal glands. The interior of the pouch is filled with tubular shaped glandular tissue,ending in a short thin canal, see Fig. 38. The secretion of the gland is ayellowish brown fluid, with a very unpleasant odor and an acid reaction.From a variety of causes, such as local irritation, the accumulation ofhard faeces, splinters of bone, etc., and from various irritations of therectum, these glands become inflamed and the anus becomes swollen, onone or both sides, generally the latter. The region is warm, painful to thetouch, and there is more or less fluctuation in the swellings. The animalmakes repeated attempts at defecation and there is every evidence of ten-esmus. The animal is continually licking the anus and pulling and slid-ing the hind ciuarters on the ground. On pressing the swellings betweenthe fingers, the contents of the anal pouches are emptied and are expelled 80 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS from the anus; this is a thick yellowish-brown