QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 171 



sweating and great prostration. Pyasmia is a blood-poisoning by 

 pyogenic microorganisms and is shown by fever, chills, icterus and 

 abscess formation in various parts of the body. 



Treatment: Is virtually hopeless. Remove necrotic tissue from 

 wounds ; antiseptic treatment ; quinine sulphate in large doses, inter- 

 nally ; stimulants to sustain heart action. 



Give the differential symptoms of acute pharyngitis and acute laryn- 

 gitis. 

 Pharyngitis: difficulty in swallowing; no cough. 

 Laryngitis : no difficulty in swallowing ; covigh present. 

 Often occur together. 



How can acute nephritis be distinguished from lumbago and lumbar 

 rheumatism? 

 By urinary examination and finding casts, indicative of nephritis. 

 By tenderness of the kidneys in nephritis, as shown by palpation 

 per rectum. 



What do you understand by diagnostic inoculation? 



Diagnostic inoculations consist of the introduction of certain 

 substances into the bodies of animals for the purpose of determining 

 either the character of the substance or the condition of the animal 's 

 health. Hence the substance injected is either a material of kaown 

 composition (tuberculin, mallein), or tissue from an animal affected 

 with an infectious disease, the nature of which is to be determined. 



Name three diseases in which you would expect to find a subnormal 

 temperature. 



Parturient paresis, anaemia and chronic gastro-intestinal catarrh 

 in the dog. 



Discuss auscultation and palpation. 



Auscultation is the act of listening for sounds within the body, 

 especially in determining the condition of the heart, lungs, pleura 

 and abdominal organs. 



Palpation is the act of examining an organ by feeling with the 

 hands or finger tips. 



How is a positive diagnosis of rabies made? 



By miscroscopic examination of the brain and finding Negri 

 bodies; also by inoculating experimental animals with the brain 

 tissue of the suspected animal. More recently, the complement- 

 fixation test has been used and is said to be satisfactory in the 

 diagnosis of rabies. 



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