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

Chapter 190: APHTHOUS CONJUNCTIVITIS. PHLYCTENULAR CONJUNCTIVITIS.

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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.

APHTHOUS CONJUNCTIVITIS. PHLYCTENULAR CONJUNCTIVITIS.

Closely allied to the last, are those cases in which vesicles appear on the conjunctiva. In exceptional cases these are seen during an epizootic of foot and mouth disease, while in other instances they are associated with eczematous eruptions on other parts of the body, particularly in dogs. In the human subject conjunctival vesicles are often associated with tuberculosis, but this has not been recorded of animals so far. The disease usually makes a rapid eruption, with symptoms of extreme inflammation, and its duration is largely determined by the general disease.

Beside the local treatment by astringent or antiseptic and sedative collyria it may be desirable to correct the hepatic, digestive or other disorder on which the eczema depends, or to improve the general health by a course of bitters or even of cod liver oil.