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

Chapter 101: ACUTE CROUPOUS CYSTITIS.

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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.

ACUTE CROUPOUS CYSTITIS.

This has been found to follow the use of cantharides and other irritant diuretics, and to follow on certain specific diseases. Its nature is that of catarrhal inflammation, but with a fibrinous product or false membrane formed more or less extensively on the inflamed mucosa.

Symptoms are essentially those of catarrhal cystitis from which it is distinguished by the presence in the urine of flakes of the fibrinous membrane.

Treatment is essentially the same as in the catarrhal form, to which may be added the injection of a solution of 4 grains scale pepsin to the ounce of sterilized water. The boric acid solution may be of the strength of 20 per cent. Irrigate two or three times a day.