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

Chapter 163: TUBERCULOSIS OF THE EYELID.
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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.

TUBERCULOSIS OF THE EYELID.

Described by Jewsejenke in the lower lid of birds, this is manifested by small, hard round knots, covered by bluish red, or yellowish red skin, and when incised showing a characteristic miliary tubercle, with bacilli and sometimes a caseated centre. It is treated by incision, curretting and caustics.