A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley.

Date:
1890
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Credit: A practical guide to meat inspection / by Thomas Walley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PA R TC 'RIENT FEI 'EK. may kill the sufferer in a period varying from thirty-six hours to several days, or it may induce various forms (usually of a septic character) of joint disease. On post-mortem examination systemic effusions and exudations are discovered, and, not infrequently, hepatic multiple abscesses exist. Apart from the comparatively small value of young animals, the existence of such lesions emphatically warrants the con- demnation of the flesh, and such carcases should be especially sought after by those responsible for the proper conduct of establishments in which potted delicacies are prepared. Malignant Parturient Fever is a disease which occurs in the ewe only, is a result of a depraved condition of the blood in- duced by improper management, e.g., feeding on unlimited quantities of turnips grown with an excess of artificial manures, or upon roots in a state of decay and decomposition, or upon the grass of fouled pastures ; it is also produced by allowing access to foul water, the gustatory function of parturient animals being frequently depraved. It is the cause of great loss in parturient ewes, at times attacking large numbers in individual flocks: and it is frequently associated with disease of the navel or of the joints in the off- spring of affected animals. It occurs within a few hours after parturition, is very fatal, and runs its course very rapidly, usually in a few hours. It is in some cases accompanied by septic inflammation of the udder or of the womb, and on post - mortem, the conditions described as resulting from septicremia are discovered. Inasmuch as local blood lesions are most largely confined to the pelvic tissues, and to the hind quarters, the butcher frequently endeavours to disguise the existence of the disease by removing the former with the knife, or if the muscles of the hind quarters only are the seat of extravasation or effusion, he will expose the fore quarters alone for sale. The remarks as to the tin-