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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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ons or a lacer-ation cavised by foreign bodies going down the tube or from foreign bodiesbecoming imbedded in the tube for a time and then dislodged, l:)y injuriesto the wall from the probang, and in still more rare instances from swallow-ing hot or scalding food, by spread of inflammatory process from thepharynx, or the presence of parasites (spiroptera). Oesophagitis is recog-nized l)y great salivation, difficulty in swallowing, attempts at or truevomiting and great pain shown by the animal on manipulation of theoesophagus. The treatment consists in giving liquids, gruel or rice waterand in severe cases, small pieces of ice at frequent intervals. Obstructions of the (Esophagus. (Stenosis Q^suphagus.) This may result from the subsequent irritation and cicatricial contrac-tion of the wall as a result of laceration by a foreign body. Occasionallywe may find malformation of the wall by an inflammatory process of thesame, from cyst formations, due to presence of spiroptera sanguinolenta,
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SPIROPTERA SANGUINOLENTA (encysted in the oesophagus.) PARALYSIS OF THE (ESOPHAGUS 51 which grow between the muscles and muscuhir coat of the oesophagus(see Fig. 26 and Phite), or by a compression stenosis, from malignantgoitre, and still less frequently by cicatricial contraction as a result ofinjuries, inflammations, etc., in the cervical region. The symptoms ofsuch injuries have been already described on page 49. In cases wherethe stenosis gradually develops, the animal has more or less difficultyin swallowing. This becomes more and more difficult until finally foodcollects in a sausage-like mass, against the constriction. Examinationby means of a probang makes a diagnosis more certain. The successfultreatment of such a condition can only be expected if the cause is due to

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