Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)

Chapter 267: VESICULAR IRRUPTION IN PIGS. PITCHY AFFECTION. SEBORRHŒA.

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Comprehensive clinical manual detailing disorders of the nervous, genitourinary, ocular, and integumentary systems in domestic animals. It begins with principles of neural control and general symptomatology, classifying motor, sensory, and psychic disturbances and methods for localizing lesions. The text describes specific conditions such as seizures, paralysis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage, tumors, and toxicoses, and outlines diagnostic signs and pathological causes. Later sections address urine analysis and renal disease, urinary tract inflammation and calculi, and diseases of the eye, skin, and constitutional systems, combining pathological description with clinical signs, differential diagnosis, and practical guidance for examination and interpretation.

VESICULAR IRRUPTION IN PIGS. PITCHY AFFECTION. SEBORRHŒA.

This also affects the young and is characterized by the successive appearance of vesicles, pustules and scabs or crusts. Friedberger and Fröhner associate it with debility from youth, disease or neglect, from articular rheumatism, rachitism, hog cholera, etc., but also as a result of lying on manure, and the accumulation of sebaceous matter and filth of all kinds on the skin.

Symptoms. Among the symptoms of general disorder are dullness, inappetence, prostration and slight fever. There is red eruption with vesicles and even pustules on the early rupture of which the discharge concretes into a black pitchy layer. It may be at first most marked on the ventral aspect of the body, but usually extends to the whole integument.

Treatment. Where it is not dependent on some grave internal disorder, this commonly yields to soapy washes, generous food and a clean pen.