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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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at distentionof the abdomen, dyspnoea, cyanosis, pain on pressure of the region of thestomach, colicky pains and vomiting. Death generally occvirs in from 30to 40 hours, either by suffocation or paralysis of the heart. The treat-ment recommended by Cadiac is to gradually remove the gas from thestomach by means of a trocar and opening the abdomen and returningthe stomach to its original position. Foreign Bodies in the Stomach.—By this we mean stones, glass, 56 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS balls, pieces of money, rubber balls, needles, hair balls. These producethe following symptoms: vomiting, loss of appetite, restlessness, animalscreaming with pain or howling, animal attempts to bite all who touchhim, colic and in the later stages great depression; where foreign bodiesbecome lodged in the pyloric portion of the stomach (see Fig. 27) theremay be no other symptom than acute catarrh of the stomach. We maydetect the foreign bodies by palpation or by means of the Rontgen orX-rays.
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Fig. 27.—X-ray picture of coin in the stomach. Therapeutics.—If the foreign body is diagnosed, give an emetic.Moller advises giving a good meal before the emetic is administered soas to assist in holding the foreign body when the emesis occurs and thisprevents it doing any harm to the tissues. If the emetic does not succeedin removing the foreign body, laparogastrotomy must be performed.This is described in detail under that head later. In performing thatoperation for this particular case, the incision should be made on the lineaalba close up to the xyphoid cartilage and thus bring the incision closeand parallel to the great curvature of the stomach; or, as Frick advises, onthe diaphragmatic position of the stomach directly on the great curva-ture. In this operation, great care must be taken not to cut any of thelarge arteries of the stomach, which are located on the great curvature. OTHER DISORDERS OF THE STOMACH 57 The animal must be fed on the lightest of liquid food for at lea

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