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TEXT BOOK
OF
VETERINARY MEDICINE

BY

JAMES LAW, F.R.C.V.S.

Director of the New York State Veterinary College Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

VOL. III

DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM—GENITO-URINARY ORGANS—EYE—SKIN CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES

ITHACA

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR

1901

Copyright by

JAMES LAW

1901

PRESS OF

ANDRUS & CHURCH

ITHACA, N. Y.

CONTENTS

[DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.]

[GENERAL SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS.]

[TROPHIC SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS.]

[SENSORY SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS.]

[PSYCHIC SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS.]

[DIAGNOSIS, SYMPTOMS AND THEIR IMMEDIATE CAUSES. LOCALIZATION OF LESION IN SPECIAL SYMPTOMS.]

[HALLUCINATIONS.]

[TIMIDITY. PANIC. STAMPEDE.]

[BALKING. RESTIVENESS.]

[DELIRIUM.]

[VICIOUSNESS. AGGRESSIVE VICE.]

[CATALEPSY.]

[INSOLATION. HEAT EXHAUSTION. SUNSTROKE. THERMIC FEVER.]

[EPILEPSY. FALLING SICKNESS.]

[ECLAMPSIA. CONVULSIONS. SPASMS.]

[CHOREA. ST. VITUS DANCE.]

[CONVULSIVE TWITCHING OF THE FACE.]

[VERTIGO. MEGRIMS. BLIND STAGGERS.]

[CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN.]

[LIGHTNING STROKE. ELECTRIC SHOCK.]

[INTRACRANIAL HÆMORRHAGE AND THROMBOSIS. APOPLEXY. SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN.]

[CEREBRAL HYPERÆMIA. MENINGO—ENCEPHALIC CONGESTION.]

[MENINGO—ENCEPHALITIS. STAGGERS.]

[CHRONIC HYDROCEPHALUS. DROPSY OF THE VENTRICLES. IMMOBILITY.]

[CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.]

[ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN.]

[TUBERCULAR MENINGITIS.]

[TUMORS OF THE BRAIN. NEOPLASMS.]

[CHOLESTEATOMA.]

[MELANOMA OF THE ENCEPHALON.]

[PSAMMOMATA (GRITTY TUMORS) OF THE BRAIN.]

[MYXOMA OF THE BRAIN.]

[ACROMEGALY. HYPERTROPHY OF THE PITUITARY BODY.]

[CEREBELLAR DISEASE.]

[BULBAR PARALYSIS. DISEASE OF MEDULLA OBLONGATA.]

[LOCO POISONING. OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI. ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS]

[LEAD POISONING. PLUMBISM.]

[ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION.]

[ANILINE POISONING.]

[POISONING BY NITRO-BENZOL.]

[POISONING BY CARBON DISULPHIDE.]

[TETANY.]

[CONGESTION OF THE SPINAL CORD IN THE HORSE AND COW.]

[ACUTE MYELITIS. POLIOMYELITIS. INFLAMMATION OF THE SPINAL CORD.]

[SPINAL MENINGITIS.]

[ACUTE MYELITIS IN THE DOG. MENINGO-MYELITIS.]

[CHRONIC MYELITIS. SCLEROSIS.]

[ARTERITIS (THROMBOSIS, EMBOLISM) OF THE SPINAL CORD AND MEMBRANES.]

[HEMORRHAGES INTO THE SPINAL MEMBRANES. Meningeal Spinal Apoplexy. Hæmatorrachis. Hemorrhage into the Spinal Cord. Spinal Apoplexy. Hæmatomyelia.]

[SPINA BIFIDA.]

[SPINAL CARIES. TUBERCULAR OR OTHER INFECTIVE DISEASE OF THE VERTEBRÆ.]

[SLOW COMPRESSION OF SPINAL CORD. PARALYSIS.]

[DILATATION OF THE CENTRAL CANAL OF THE SPINAL CORD. SYRINGOMYELIA.]

[NEURASTHENIA IN PREGNANT EWES.]

[NEURITIS. PERINEURITIS.]

[NEURALGIA.]

[ATROPHY OF NERVES.]

[DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS.]

[PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE URINE.]

[GENERAL SYMPTOMS OF URINARY DISEASE.]

[HEMATURIA.]

[ACUTE CONGESTION OF THE KIDNEYS IN SOLIPEDS.]

[ACUTE CONGESTION OF THE KIDNEYS IN CATTLE.]

[ACUTE CONGESTION OF THE KIDNEYS IN SHEEP AND GOAT.]

[ACUTE CONGESTION OF THE KIDNEYS IN SWINE.]

[CONGESTION OF THE KIDNEYS IN CARNIVORA.]

[NEPHRITIS.]

[ACUTE NEPHRITIS. ACUTE BRIGHT’S DISEASE.]

[PURULENT NEPHRITIS.]

[PERINEPHRITIS.]

[PYELITIS. PYELONEPHRITIS. INFLAMMATION OF THE RENAL PELVIS.]

[CHRONIC NEPHRITIS.]

[HYPERTROPHY OF THE KIDNEY.]

[ATROPHY OF THE KIDNEY.]

[FATTY DEGENERATION OF THE KIDNEY]

[AMYLOID KIDNEY. LARDACEOUS OR WAXY KIDNEY.]

[RENAL CALCULUS.]

[INJURIES OF THE URETERS.]

[URETERITIS.]

[ACUTE CATARRHAL CYSTITIS.]

[ACUTE CROUPOUS CYSTITIS.]

[CHRONIC CATARRHAL CYSTITIS.]

[CYSTITIS IN THE OX.]

[CYSTITIS IN DOGS.]

[ATONY AND PARALYSIS OF THE BLADDER.]

[TUMORS OF THE BLADDER.]

[VESICAL PARASITES.]

[SPASM OF NECK OF BLADDER.]

[RUPTURE AND LACERATION OF THE BLADDER.]

[EVERSION OF THE BLADDER.]

[HERNIA OF THE BLADDER.]

[ANOMALIES OF THE BLADDER.]

[URETHRAL ANOMALIES.]

[ACUTE URETHRITIS. CATARRH OF THE URETHRA.]

[WOUNDS OF THE URETHRA.]

[FOREIGN BODIES IN THE URETHRA.]

[STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.]

[ACUTE PROSTATITIS AND HYPERÆMIA OF THE PROSTATE.]

[CHRONIC PROSTATITIS.]

[HYPERTROPHY OF THE PROSTATE.]

[TUBERCULOSIS OF THE PROSTATE.]

[CANCER OF THE PROSTATE.]

[PROSTATIC CYSTS.]

[CALCULUS OF THE PROSTATE.]

[DISEASES OF THE FEMALE GENERATIVE ORGANS. Malposition of ovary and womb. Hernia of the ovaries.]

[UNDEVELOPED OVARIES. ABSENCE OF OVARIES.]

[ATROPHY OF OVARIES.]

[SUPERNUMERARY OVARIES.]

[IRRITABLE OVARY. NEURALGIA OF THE OVARY.]

[HÆMORRHAGE ON THE OVARY.]

[INFLAMMATION OF THE OVARIES. OÖPHORITIS. PERIOÖPHORITIS.]

[OVARIAN CYSTS.]

[DERMOID CYSTS OF THE OVARY. PILOUS CYSTS.]

[SOLID OVARIAN TUMORS.]

[INFLAMMATION OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES. SALPINGITIS.]

[DISEASES OF THE OVIDUCT IN BIRDS.]

[HYDROMETRA AND PYOMETRA.]

[UTERINE TUMORS.]

[UTERINE TUBERCLE.]

[IMPERFORATE HYMEN.]

[VAGINITIS. LEUCORRHŒA.]

[TUMORS OF THE VAGINA.]

[PARTURITION FEVER (COLLAPSE). MILK FEVER. PARTURIENT APOPLEXY. CALVING FEVER. PARTURITION PARESIS.]

[DISEASES OF THE EYE. DESIRABLE FEATURES IN THE EYE.]

[DEFECTS, BLEMISHES AND ABNORMALITIES OF THE HORSE’S EYE.]

[SYSTEMATIC INSPECTION OF THE EYE.]

[OPHTHALMOSCOPE.]

[WOUNDS OF THE EYELIDS.]

[DEFICIENCY OF THE EYELIDS. COLOBOMA PALPEBRARUM.]

[ORGANIC UNION OF THE EYELIDS. ANKYLOBLEPHARON. NARROWED FISSURE BETWEEN THE LIDS. BLEPHAROPHYMOSIS.]

[WIDENED PALPEBRAL FISSURE.]

[LAGOPHTHALMOS. INABILITY TO CLOSE EYELIDS.]

[ADHESION OF THE EYELID TO THE BULB. SYMBLEPHARON.]

[INFLAMMATION OF THE EYELIDS. BLEPHARITIS.]

[ŒDEMA OF EYELIDS.]

[EMPHYSEMA OF THE EYELIDS.]

[DISEASE OF THE MEIBOMIAN GLANDS. BLEPHARADENITIS. SEBORRHŒA.]

[HORDEOLUM. STYE. ACNE.]

[CHALAZION.]

[TUBERCULOSIS OF THE EYELID.]

[TURNED IN EYELASH. TRICHIASIS.]

[ENTROPION. TURNING IN OF THE EYELID.]

[TURNING OUT OF THE EYELID. ECTROPION.]

[TUMORS OF THE EYELIDS.]

[FRACTURE OF THE ORBIT.]

[BRUISES AND WOUNDS OF THE ORBIT.]

[RETRO-BULBAR ABSCESS.]

[PERIOSTITIS OF THE ORBIT.]

[TUMORS OF THE ORBIT.]

[DISEASE OF THE LACHRYMAL GLAND AND DUCTS. DACRYO-ADENITIS.]

[OBSTRUCTION OF THE LACHRYMAL PUNCTA. ATRESIA. INFLAMMATION.]

[WOUND AND FISTULA OF THE LACHRYMAL SAC.]

[CATARRH OF THE LACHRYMAL SAC. DACRYOCYSTITIS.]

[STENOSIS OF THE LACHRYMO-NASAL DUCT.]

[DISEASE OF THE LACHRYMAL CARUNCLE.]

[WOUNDS AND INFLAMMATION OF THE MEMBRANA NICTITANS.]

[TUMORS AND HYPERTROPHY OF THE MEMBRANA NICTITANS.]

[ADENOMA OF THE GLAND OF HARDER.]

[FOREIGN BODIES IN THE CONJUNCTIVAL SAC.]

[WOUNDS OF THE CONJUNCTIVA.]

[BURNS OF THE CONJUNCTIVA.]

[SIMPLE ACUTE CATARRHAL CONJUNCTIVITIS.]

[CHRONIC CONJUNCTIVITIS.]

[PURULENT CONJUNCTIVITIS. BLENNORRHŒA.]

[INFECTIOUS CONJUNCTIVITIS IN HERBIVORA. ENZOOTIC OPHTHALMIA.]

[VARIOLOUS CONJUNCTIVITIS.]

[APHTHOUS CONJUNCTIVITIS. PHLYCTENULAR CONJUNCTIVITIS.]

[DIPHTHERITIC CONJUNCTIVITIS IN BIRDS.]

[FOLLICULAR CONJUNCTIVITIS.]

[NEOPLASMS OF THE CONJUNCTIVA.]

[PTERYGIUM.]

[XEROSIS CORNEÆ (EPITHELIALIS). DRY KERATITIS.]

[WOUNDS OF THE CORNEA.]

[FOREIGN BODIES IN THE CORNEA.]

[ACUTE KERATITIS. INFLAMMATION OF THE CORNEA.]

[POISONING WITH COTTON SEED OR COTTON SEED MEAL.]

[CHRONIC KERATITIS.]

[OPACITY OF THE CORNEA. NEBULA. MACULA. LEUCOMA.]

[ULCER OF THE CORNEA.]

[CORNEAL STAPHYLOMA.]

[ECTASIA CORNEÆ. KERATOCONUS. CONICAL CORNEA.]

[KERATOGLOBUS.]

[TUMORS OF THE CORNEA.]

[WOUNDS OF THE SCLERA.]

[EPISCLERITIS. INFLAMMATION OF THE SCLERA.]

[ECTASIA (BULGING) OF THE SCLERA.]

[PROLAPSE OF THE IRIS.]

[INTERNAL OPHTHALMIA.]

[SIMPLE IRITIS.]

[SYMPTOMATIC OR METASTATIC IRITIS.]

[FOREIGN BODIES IN THE IRIS.]

[COLOBOMA IRIDIS. CONGENITAL APERTURE IN IRIS.]

[DOUBLE PUPIL.]

[ALBINISM. WATCH EYE.]

[PERSISTENT PUPILLARY MEMBRANE.]

[OCCLUDED PUPIL.]

[CYCLITIS.]

[CYSTS OF THE IRIS AND CORPORA NIGRA.]

[TUBERCULOSIS OF THE IRIS.]

[CHOROIDITIS.]

[DETACHMENT OF THE CHOROID.]

[RECURRENT OPHTHALMIA OF SOLIPEDS. PERIODIC OPHTHALMIA. MOONBLINDNESS.]

[PANOPHTHALMITIS.]

[GLAUCOMA.]

[EXOPHTHALMOS.]

[HYDROPHTHALMOS OR BUPHTHALMUS CONGENITUS.]

[CATARACT. OPACITY OF THE LENS OR ITS CAPSULE.]

[DISLOCATION OF THE LENS.]

[PERSISTENT ARTERIA HYALOIDEA.]

[OPACITY OF THE VITREOUS.]

[RETINITIS.]

[DETACHMENT OF THE RETINA.]

[RETINAL HEMORRHAGE.]

[TUMORS OF THE RETINA.]

[INFLAMMATION OF THE OPTIC NERVE. PAPILLITIS.]

[RETRO-BULBAR OPTIC NEURITIS.]

[ATROPHY. PARALYSIS OF THE OPTIC NERVE. AMBLYOPIA. AMAUROSIS.]

[ANOPHTHALMOS. ATROPHY OF THE EYEBALL. PHTHISIS BULBI. MICROPHTHALMOS.]

[LUXATIO BULBI. DISLOCATION OF THE GLOBE OF THE EYE.]

[ARTIFICIAL EYE.]

[STRABISMUS. SQUINTING. LACK OF MUSCULAR BALANCE.]

[NYSTAGMUS. OSCILLATORY MOVEMENT OF THE EYE.]

[DISEASES OF THE SKIN.]

[GENERAL CAUSES OF SKIN DISEASES.]

[DIAGNOSIS OF SKIN DISEASES.]

[GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT OF SKIN DISEASES.]

[ERYTHEMA. ERYTHEMATOUS DERMATITIS.]

[INTERTRIGO. INTERTRIGO OF CHAFING.]

[ERYTHEMA CALORICUM]

[BUCKWHEAT ERYTHEMA]

[ERYTHEMA FROM IRRITANTS.]

[DERMATITIS.]

[ECZEMA. A BOILING OUT. A PUSTULE.]

[ACUTE ECZEMA IN SOLIPEDS. DORSAL ASPECT.]

[CHRONIC ECZEMA OF THE HEAD IN SOLIPEDS.]

[CHRONIC MOIST ECZEMA (IMPETIGO) AT THE MANE AND TAIL.]

[CHRONIC ECZEMA OF THE CARPUS AND TARSUS; MALANDERS]

[ECZEMA OF ALIMENTARY ORIGIN IN CATTLE. STARVATION MANGE. STALK DISEASE. MALT ECZEMA. POTATO ECZEMA.]

[MOIST ECZEMA OF THE PASTERNS IN THE OX.]

[MOIST ECZEMA OF THE TAIL, NECK, CHINE AND DEWLAP OF CATTLE.]

[CHRONIC ECZEMA IN CATTLE.]

[ECZEMA IN SHEEP.]

[ECZEMA IN SWINE.]

[VESICULAR IRRUPTION IN PIGS. PITCHY AFFECTION. SEBORRHŒA.]

[GRANULAR ERUPTION IN SWINE.]

[ACUTE ECZEMA OF THE DOG.]

[OTHER ACUTE ECZEMAS IN DOGS.]

[CHRONIC ECZEMA IN THE DOG.]

[LICHEN. HEAT PAPULES. PRICKLY HEAT.]

[PITYRIASIS]

[PITYRIASIS IN CATTLE.]

[PITYRIASIS IN THE DOG AND CAT.]

[CONTAGIOUS PUSTULAR DERMATITIS IN THE HORSE. ACNE.]

[PEMPHIGUS IN HORSE, OX, PIG AND DOG.]

[CRACKED HEELS IN HORSES. SCRATCHES.]

[SEBORRHŒA OF THE DIGITAL REGION]

[CUTANEOUS HEMORRHAGE]

[ULCERATION. GANGRENE. BED SORES.]

[CUTANEOUS HYPERTROPHY. ELEPHANTIASIS. PACHYDERMIA.]

[ICHTHYOSIS. FISH-SKIN DISEASE.]

[FURUNCULUS. BOIL.]

[HYPERPLASIA OF THE SKIN.]

[ALOPECIA CONGENITA. CONGENITAL BALDNESS.]

[ALOPECIA. POST PARTEM. ALOPECIA AREATA.]

[TRICHORRHEXIS NODOSA. NODULAR SWELLING AND SPLITTING OF HAIR.]

[CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. RHEUMATISM.]

[SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM IN THE HORSE.]

[SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM IN THE HORSE.]

[SYMPTOMS OF MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM IN HORSES.]

[SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM IN CATTLE.]

[SYMPTOMS OF MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM IN CATTLE.]

[SYMPTOMS OF RHEUMATISM IN SHEEP.]

[SYMPTOMS OF ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM IN SWINE.]

[SYMPTOMS OF ARTICULAR RHEUMATISM IN THE DOG.]

[SYMPTOMS OF MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM IN THE DOG.]

[PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF RHEUMATISM.]

[GOUT. PODAGRA. ARTHRITIS URICA.]

[SCURVY]

[GOITRE. BRONCHOCELE. ENLARGEMENT OF THE THYROID.]

[EXOPHTHALMIC GOITRE.]

[RACHITIS. RICKETS.]

[BRAN DISEASE]