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Chapter 257: CHRONIC ECZEMA OF THE HEAD IN SOLIPEDS.[1]
By James Law
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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.

CHRONIC ECZEMA OF THE HEAD IN SOLIPEDS.[1]

Affects face, eyelids, cheeks. Symptoms: papules, vesicles, dry, rigid skin, scurf, glistening, shedding hairs. Treatment: as in eczema; antiseptics.

1. Acute eczema of the heels. See chapped heels and grease.

The cheeks and forehead are the most liable to suffer in this affection, yet the eyelids and the parts below the inner canthus may participate in connection with the escape of tears and the disease of the lachrymal sac or ducts. It has been seen in the young when strangles had merged into skin eruption, but also in the aged and independently of that affection.

Symptoms. Following strangles the papules or vesicular eruption may have passed leaving the skin thick, rigid, dry and scurfy. The pigment may be increased and the hairs are usually shed in connection with atrophy of their follicles and rubbing of the itching surface, so that the cuticle is smooth, glabrous and even glistening. In implication of the lachrymal apparatus, there is shedding of hairs beneath the eye or the wet matted condition of those that remain.

Treatment. In strangles use a lotion of silver nitrate or sodium hyposulphite to destroy the local infection. In other cases treat as for ordinary eczema.