The eye is surrounded by naked skin of a deep red; the back, the wings and the belly are of a dark blue; the rump and tail are of a very bright carmine red; the beak and iris are of the same colour, and the feet are black.
Considerable study of normal feces is necessary for their recognition.
Owing to the difficulty of excluding swallowed sputum, the presence of the tubercle bacillus is less significant in the feces than in other material.
Normally, unaltered bile-pigment is never present in the feces of adults.
Ordinarily the eggs hatch in the intestine, and when infection is severe, embryos can be found in the feces in large numbers.
Relief is afforded by the use of purgatives that render the feces soft and thin and thus enable them to pass the obstruction, but in time the contracted place is liable to close so far that passage is impossible and the horse will die.
The feces are passed somewhat more frequently, but in smaller quantities and drier; the abdomen is full, but not distended with gas; the horse at first is noticed to paw and soon begins to look back at his sides.
The feces show, to a certain extent, the thoroughness of digestion.
Sometimes the feces are coated with or contain shreds of fibrin, looking like scraps of dead membrane, and they have an evil, putrid odor.
Too often such cases prove fatal, or at least a recovery is not attained, and urine or feces or both escape freely into the vagina.
If the stagnant mass of feces is in the rectum, it must be removed with the hand.
The feces are less fetid and more liquid; and it sometimes portends the commencement of a diabætes, or dropsy, or their temporary relief.
The feces must sometimes be taken away by the end of a marrow-spoon, as cathartics and even clyster will pass without removing them.
The feces are hardened in lumps called scybala; which are sometimes obliged to be extracted from the rectum with a kind of marrow spoon.
An accumulation of feces in the rectum, occasioned by the torpor, or insensibility, of that bowel.
The pain becomes heightened from an accumulation of feces in the rectum, which a habitual constipation entails.
Children under one year of age should have two evacuations, and those from one to three years should have at least one passage a day; when this does not occur the feces become solid and constipation is the result.
Habitual costiveness is often followed by diarrhea from the irritation which the hardened feces excite.
They expelled urine andfeces simultaneously, and had the indications in common.
Urine and feceswere evacuated at intervals from the parasite, and received into a diaper constantly worn for this purpose.
There is a record of a man who stated that for two years he had not passed his stool by the anus, but that at six o'clock each evening he voided feces by the mouth.
On arrival at the hospital his wounds were dressed and he speedily convalesced, but the injured colon ruptured and an artificial anus was formed and part of the feces were discharged through the wound.
In the intervals the patient passed small quantities of hard feces once in eight or ten days, but the amount was so small that they constituted no more than the feces of one meal.
Throughout her fast she had periodic convulsions, and voided no urine or feces for twelve months before her death.
One vomited without affecting the other, but the feces were discharged through a common opening.
Dickinson mentions a Burmese male child, four years old, who had an imperforate anus and urethra, but who passed feces and urine successfully through an opening at the base of the glans penis.
A compensatory coalition of the bowel with the bladder or urethra is sometimes present, and in these cases the feces are voided by the urinary passages.
Zacutus Lusitanus describes an infant with an imperforate membrane over its anus who voided feces through the urethra for three months.
This man was subsequently seen at Midnapore healthy and lusty although his body was bent to one side in consequence of a large cicatrix; a small portion of thefeces occasionally passed through the open wound.
Lavage was practiced by a cannula introduced through the opening, and a great number of cherry stones agglutinated with feces followed the water, and labor was soon terminated.
Vomiting was rare, was invariably bilious and coarse-grained; neither feces nor flatus were discharged; the urine was as before the diazo-reaction negative.
Since morning neither feces nor flatue had been passed; the patient complained of strangury which, however, he rarely attempted to relieve because he feared to aggravate the pain which shot downward and radiated into the urethra.
Any cavity may contain gas or material for decomposition, such as blood, pus, lymph, or as in perforation of the intestines, feces in the abdominal cavity.
Arctic foxes on the pack ice live on feces and the remains of seals killed by polar bears (Ursus maritimus).
Aside from the food found in leads in the ice, the only food available to birds in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in winter is carrion and the feces of mammals found on the pack ice.
No remains of weasels were found in the feces of the foxes and it appears that the foxes do not eat the weasels.
Feces and urine were ordinarily deposited in one particular place by each of the captive weasels that I have observed.
Similar associations exist in which many of the domiciliary cockroaches feed on the feces of man and domestic and other animals (Roth and Willis, 1957a).
The virus could also be transmitted through the feces of wild mice if the mice happened to feed on virus-infected cockroaches.
Upon repeated feeding of massive doses of this yeast to the cockroach, these workers were able to isolate the organism from the feces up to six days thereafter.
Filatoff, 1904): The infected insects suffered from a diarrhea and the liquid feces were yellow-brown.
Experimentally Morrell also showed that the spores of the fungus could be recovered from feces of cockroaches that had fed on them.
These habitats are particularly important in view of the demonstrated migrations of cockroaches from sewers into dwellings and the possible dissemination of pathogenic microorganisms from feces to food.
From feces of cockroaches collected in the basement of a grain elevator at the docks in Galveston.
Cockroaches in mines presumably subsist on the food and feces dropped by man and mine animals (e.
By feeding on chicken feces it may become the vector of the chicken eyeworm, Oxyspirura mansoni, as described in the references cited on page 204.
Rats became infected with this protozoan on eating food that had been contaminated with feces from these cockroaches.
Impaction of feces is a very common cause of obstruction of the rectum, and atony of this organ is usually the primary cause, the feces in these cases being {890} either very hard and dry or clayey and tenacious.
Those which burrow most readily are the internal fistulae with large openings, into which the feces are pushed, with the sinus running toward the anus, because of their funnel-shape.
Pfeiffer pointed out that when peptonized milk is employed "the feces showed absolutely no trace of the white cheesiness.
Moreover, loops of intestine containing feces or gas may lie over the anterior surface of the stomach.
The feces are colorless or have a grayish or clay-colored tint, and are semi-solid, although sometimes hard and dry.
Accumulation and impaction offeces must then necessarily ensue, and it is highly probable that this accumulation occurs in this way as a result more frequently than as a cause of the condition.
Independent of these conditions, the hemorrhage nearly always has its origin in the lowest regions of the large intestine, where condensation of the feces is naturally greatest.
In such cases an opening may be formed by suppuration, or the lancet may secure the passage of feces through an artificial anus, and temporary respite be obtained.
The only exception to the rule of avoiding purgatives is as stated by Jonathan Hutchinson: "In certain cases when impaction of feces is suspected, and in cases of stricture when fluidity of feces is desirable.
In this connection caution must be exercised not to confound masses of impacted feces with tumefactions.
The discharges in such cases are usually black, tarry, and more or less fluid; whereas blood from the colon or rectum still preserves its fresh red color and is discharged separate from the feces or simply coats its exterior.
If the bowel is much distended with gas, the color is pale; the mingling of bile with the feces causes a yellowish or brownish color; if blood is in the tube a dull red hue is given to the walls.
Paralysis of the bladder and rectum is often delayed in cases of slow compression of the cord; but if the compression exists to any considerable extent, involuntary discharges of urine and feces will be sure to occur.
Seven days after the injury she was seized with shivering: and on the ninth day she lay comatose, voiding her feces and urine involuntarily.
The discharge, in general, is rather profuse, the bowel is very irritable, desire to evacuate it is frequent, and the feces are often tinged with blood.
After some time the bowel retracts, but cannot leave the adhesion in the groin: by this retraction the orifices may be brought in a more direct line with each other, and the natural passage of the feces be somewhat assisted.
During the intermissions the patient is, in great measure, free from pain, and passes his feces and urine without difficulty.
The patient grows emaciated, and perhaps becomes weak in the lower limbs, and even in the upper; the feces and urine are imperfectly retained.
The bowel, when dead, or evidently gangrenous, is to be opened, and the discharge offeces by the wound promoted.
A fecal fistula remains for some time; but, by the aid of lymph and granulations, the breach in the parietes of the bowel is repaired gradually, the feces resume their natural course, and the external opening heals.
In cases of tight stricture, the bowels are distended with feces and flatus; and if evacuation is not procured vomiting ensues, followed by enteritic symptoms, as in strangulation of the higher bowels.
From two to three ounces of this should be thrown up the rectum twice a day; the bowels being at the same time kept in a soluble state by gentle laxatives, and the patient compelled to void his feces in the standing posture.
The direct symptoms relate to the hardness of the fecesand the great difficulty of voiding them.
Applied to feces which have remained in the rectum a long time.
The feces may accumulate in the rectum, because they cannot pass this obstruction.
In a word, the accumulation of feces in the colon irritates both the large and small intestines, thus causing congestion of the bowels, liver, or stomach.
When somewhat better, this conduct appeared in a more conscious form, as sullenness, indifference and smearing of feces (again the behavior of a naughty child).
Naturally those who retain urine and feces should be watched to see that this retention does not last long enough to menace health.
Remains of one of the three species of rabbits, cottontails, jack rabbits, or brush rabbits, occurred in 72 per cent of the feces examined.
Feces from sage areas contained mostly remains of insects and small rodents whereas many samples of feces from chaparral areas contained, in addition, shells of snails.
In December, 1951, below Graham Canyon, the leaves on large areas of many nearly recumbent Joshua trees had been gnawed down to their bases, and jack rabbit feces covered the ground next to these gnawings.
Parts of the skulls of this species were found in many coyote feces from the desert slope.
Many field examinations of coyote feces left the impression that chickens and lagomorphs made up the bulk of the coyote's food on the coastal slope.
Piles offeces under thick oak and mountain-mahogany chaparral indicated that the rabbits often sought shelter there.
A few spotted skunks may inhabit the lower desert slope of the mountains; here feces thought to be those of spotted skunks have been found, and a bobcat trapped near the head of Grandview Canyon smelled strongly of skunk.
This must be a rather unsuitable form of nourishment for coyotes, for many of the grapes in the feces appeared nearly unaltered despite their trip through the alimentary canal.
Deer hair and bones were often found in coyote feces from the sagebrush belt.
Footnote A: This is an expression, in percentage, of the number of sets of feces which contained the particular food item out of the total of thirty-nine sets examined.
Examinations of feces and stomach contents of the coyote reveals that it preys more heavily on cottontails than on any other wild species.
Remains of woodrats were found in feces of the coyote and gray fox.
The grass nests were free of feces, but feces were piled up against the west side of the chamber with many snail shells and dissected fruits and flowers of prickly-pear.
Near Valyermo, coyote feces were composed mostly of apples from nearby orchards.
Feces and Entrails= of animals eaten by Point Barrow Eskimo =9=: 62.
This fact is explainable by the closure of the outlet of the fistula, caused either by a plug of feces or as a result of inflammatory swelling, which allows the collection of a quantity of pus and the consequent formation of a boggy tumor.
An attack of secondary suppuration is always liable to complicate the presence of a fistula, and is usually due to a stoppage of the track by small particles of feces or by exuberant growth of the granulations.
In this variety of fistula the feces are coated more or less with pus or blood, and a boggy swelling is noted at some portion of the circumference of the anus.
On several occasions small nematodes and flukes were seen in feces voided by lizards which were handled.
The uric acid deposit is loose and crumbly, and much less compact than that with bird feces, and the food residue is much less completely disintegrated than is similar material in feces of birds.
When handled, she voided feces which contained the nearly intact shell of a skink egg.
Although these feces were not analyzed, they seemed to consist mainly or entirely of ant remains.
Often the feces of the frogs were found in pitfalls or under flat rocks.
Individuals kept in confinement for a day or more almost invariably voided feces which consisted mainly or entirely of ant remains, chiefly the heads, as these are most resistant to digestion.
Tanner reported that in a large number of the frogs which he collected in Douglas, Riley, Pottawatomie, and Geary counties, Kansas, the digestive tracts and feces contained only ants.
In all cases where the disease is suspected, a half-teaspoonful of the feces of the person supposed to be infected should be placed in a bottle and sent to a competent microscopist for examination.
The indiscriminate scattering of the feces around the stables, so very common in many districts, should be absolutely forbidden.
There is no disease that can be diagnosticated with more ease and certainty; the eggs are present in the feces in great numbers, and by means of a microscope they can always be detected.
At intervals the pails containing the feces are removed, and the contents are carried to a distance and buried.
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