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

Chapter 221: TUBERCULOSIS OF THE IRIS.
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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 IRIS.

This has occurred as the result of inoculation of the aqueous humor in the smaller animals, and as a spontaneous localization of the disease in cattle (Hess, Röder, Fischöder, etc.). In Hess’s case, the left eye was shrunken to half the size of the sound right eye, and small caseated tubercles were present in both iris and choroid. There are usually coincident tubercles in other organs, and these with the nodular appearance of the iris swellings, if visible in life, may assist in diagnosis. (See Symptomatic Iritis, and Tuberculosis.)