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

Chapter 234: DETACHMENT OF THE RETINA.

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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.

DETACHMENT OF THE RETINA.

This may occur in any case of retinitis or choroiditis. It is especially common in recurrent ophthalmia in horses. It may also occur through the dragging by contracting inflammatory products in organization. Spontaneous recoveries have taken place through reabsorption, and attempts have been made by the injection of iodide lotion to hasten this, or more safely by rest and diaphoresis. Puncture and aspiration have also been tried with most varied results. As a rule in the lower animals the treatment of the inflammation, with rest, a pressure bandage, and pilocarpin will be indicated.