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

Chapter 282: ICHTHYOSIS. FISH-SKIN DISEASE.
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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.

ICHTHYOSIS. FISH-SKIN DISEASE.

This consists in a scaly formation of the epidermis which is also formed in excess, and is supposed to be dependent on disordered trophic innervation. In new born calves suffering in this way Van Stettin found an excess of phosphate of lime in the epidermis. The calves usually die in a few days.