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

Chapter 173: DISEASE OF THE LACHRYMAL GLAND AND DUCTS. DACRYO-ADENITIS.

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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.

DISEASE OF THE LACHRYMAL GLAND AND DUCTS. DACRYO-ADENITIS.

Even in man these parts are remarkably free from disease, while in the lower animals, we have literally no record of such conditions. Inflammation of the gland (dacryo-adenitis) would be manifested by a sensitive swelling under the outer part of the orbital process, and upper eyelid and by lachrymation, and obstruction of the gland duct and by a tense transparent rounded swelling inside the lid. A fistula is possible from a penetrating wound of the lid in the same situation. In both of the latter conditions an opening made through the palpebral conjunctiva will allow the discharge of the tears in the proper place, and healing of any external wound may be hastened by suture or plaster.