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

Chapter 216: ALBINISM. WATCH EYE.
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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.

ALBINISM. WATCH EYE.

The albino is an animal in which there is a complete absence of pigment in the eye. It is usually seen in white races of rats, rabbits and dogs, and both the iris and choroid reflect a pink tint. It may cause photophobia and some weakness of vision but, in the main, it seems to be harmless to the lower animals. In horses it is occasionally seen as a partial defect, a portion only of the iris and adjacent sclerotic appearing of a brilliant white color. It does not usually seem to impair the vision, so that at the worst, it is only looked on as a blemish. It is needless to attempt a remedy.