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

Chapter 159: EMPHYSEMA OF THE EYELIDS.
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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.

EMPHYSEMA OF THE EYELIDS.

This has been already referred to as occurring in malignant œdema, black quarter and other gas producing infections. It may also come from lacerations made in puncturing the lachrymal sac, and from fracture of the margin of the orbit—the air entering the connective tissue in this case from the cavities of the nasal sinuses. The lid feels puffy and crackles when pressed and apart from a general infection it requires only soothing and antiseptic dressings.