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

Chapter 124: CALCULUS OF THE PROSTATE.

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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.

CALCULUS OF THE PROSTATE.

Two forms of calculi have been found in the prostate in domestic animals: 1st, small, round, angular or branched bodies made up in concentric layers and formed of organic nitrogenous bodies: and 2nd, genuine calculi of calcium phosphate or ammonia magnesian phosphate. These may cause pressure on the parenchymatous tissue and atrophy, but in the lower animals they are seldom the direct cause of prominent morbid symptoms. They must, however, be recognized as one of the causes of chronic irritation that contribute to prostatic inflammation and hypertrophy.