FOREIGN BODIES IN THE UVER. 



In horse : spikes of leguminosse, barley awns. Symptoms : of internal 

 hemorrhage, pallor, weakness, vertigo, death ; jaundice, prostration, stupor, 

 weakness, crossing of fore limbs, tender right hypochondrium. In cattle : 

 bodies passing from rumen. In swine, sand. Iu dog', sharp bodies from 

 stomach. Treatment : laparotomy. 



Foreign bodies are rare in the liver in our domestic animals. 

 Horse. St. Cyr has found the spikes of leguminosse and Megnin 

 the beards of barley. St. Cyr believed that he traced the passage 

 followed by the stalk through the walls of the duodenum, and 

 portal vein where it divided to be distributed through the 

 liver. _ At the point of supposed entrance the walls of the 

 vena portse were thickened and its lumen filled with clots. The 

 further course of the portal vein and its branches showed similar 

 thickening and clots, and on the branch leading to the right lobe 

 was a large abscess containing 4 decilitres of pus. Clots ex- 

 tended into the splenic, omental and mesenteric veins, and be- 

 tween the folds of the mesentery of the small intestine were a 

 number of minute ruptures and blood extravasations. 



Megnin found traces of the passage of the barley beards 

 through the gastric walls and into the substance of the liver close 

 to the portal fissure. Around the centre where the barbs were 

 implanted there was an irregular hemorrhagic extravasation in the 

 liver, and in the abdominal cavity an effusion of 8 or 10 quarts 

 of blood. 



Symptoms. In such a case the only definite symptoms are 

 those of internal hemorrhage, pallor of the mucous membranes, 

 gradually increasing weakness, vertigo, unsteady gait, and an 

 early death. In more protracted cases slight jaundice, dullness, 

 prostration, stupor, drooping of head, ears and eyelids, resting it 

 on the manger or walls, muscular weakness, crossing of the front 

 limbs, and it may be tenderness on percussion on the right side 

 of the chest posteriorly. It resembles the coma or immobility of 

 the horse but the patient backs more easily. 



Cattle. In ruminants sharp-pointed bodies passing from the 

 rumen will occasionally penetrate the liver, and give rise to 

 symptoms of hepatic disorder. Augenheister found in a cow 

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