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

Chapter 109: RUPTURE AND LACERATION OF THE BLADDER.

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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.

RUPTURE AND LACERATION OF THE BLADDER.

This occurs most commonly in oxen from obstruction of the urethra by a calculus. Similar obstruction in the horse causes most acute symptoms, calling for immediate relief, and rupture is a comparatively rare occurrence. Pench mentions a case resulting from a fall during an attack of colic, and with a full bladder. It has happened during lithotrity, or lithotomy, and even during parturition. Perforation by parasites has been noted and in one case by an osseous tumor of the pubic symphysis. In horses a fatal result is prompt, in cattle from 6 to 48 days.

Treatment surgical.