798 Tetany. La Teial)ladera. Basedow's Disease. 



Treatment. Al)ove all one should endetn'or to find out the 

 cause of the complaint. Besides, irrital)ility of the nervous sys- 

 tem may be counteracted with narcotics (bromine, chloral hy- 

 drate, opium, morphine). The spasms generally disappear, 

 however, in time without any treatment. 



Literature. Kramell, Z. f. Vk., 1905, 498.— Lieiiaux, Ann., 1897, 479.— Polil, 

 Z. f. \k., 1909, 22.5.— Villeinin, J. vet., 1905, 601.— Ziirn, D. t. W., 1905, 25. 



Tetany. (Tetania, Tetanus intermittens.) As tetany one desig- 

 nates in human medicine, according to Striimpell, attacks of tonic and 

 generally painful spasms which in most cases occur symmetrically on 

 ])oth sides, and which preferably affect the flexor muscles, whereas the 

 body, neck or head muscles are seldom attacked. In the intervals be- 

 tween the spasms, the electric, and especially the galvanic, as Avell as 

 also the mechanical irritability of the peripheral nerves is increased. 

 A further important diagnostic sign is that the spasm can be lirought 

 on ])y pressure on the trunks of the great arteries and nerves. The out- 

 come of the disease is usually favorable. This neurosis has hitherto been 

 noticed chiefly in nursing women, further in connection with certain 

 acute diseases, as well as freiiuently after the extirpation of goitre, and 

 in dilatation of the stomach. 



Gunning (Am. v. Rev., 1895, No. 12) claims to have noticed tetany 

 in a recently castrated horse in which adhesion had occurred between the 

 spermatic cord and the scrotal wound ; the tetany disappeared immedi- 

 ately on separation of the adhesion. Since the horse Avas not examined 

 for the characteristic symptoms of tetany the case cannot be accepted as 

 proving the occurrence of tetany in animals. 



La Tembladera. This is an intoxication disease occurring very fre- 

 ([uently in herbivorous animals in the Argentine Republic. According 

 to Rivas & Zanolli this disease is brought about by a thread fungus para- 

 sitic on Festuca Hieronymi, but indigenous animals are immune. Six to 

 ten hours after eating the plant fibrillary spasms arise in different mus- 

 cles, likewise dullness and roughness of the coat. After a few hours 

 swaying movements of the whole body occur both laterally and length- 

 ways. At first these convulsive movements are but slight, but after a 

 day or more they become so strong and occur so suddenly that the ani- 

 mal can only preserve an upright position with great difficulty, and 

 at times falls dovai. After a further 2 to 7 days the patient remains 

 lying down but shows spasms or nuiscular stiffness in the neck and ex- 

 tremities. After a decided rise in the pulse rate the liody temperature 

 sinks as low as 34° C. and in 4 to 14 days the animal dies, unless ap- 

 propriate treatment (employment of purgatives, pilocarpine, arecoline, 

 eserine) is undertaken. (Rivas & Zanolli, La Tembladera, Revista de 

 la Fac. de Agron. y Veter., 1909, V.) 



10. Basedow's Disease. Morbus Basedowii. 



{Goitre ophtliahnique [French] ; Grave's disease; Exophfhahn'w 



Goitre.) 



History. In veterinary literature there are few references to this 

 disease since it was first ol)served in man by Basedow in the year 1840. 

 Jewsejenko, Cadiot, Marek, Ries have noticed a similar kind of iHness 



