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

Chapter 84: NEPHRITIS.

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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.

NEPHRITIS.

The renal inflammations have not been fully investigated in the domestic animals, and even in man, the pathology of several of the forms is still enveloped in some measure of doubt. In man the following conditions have been noted:

1st. Acute parenchymatous nephritis with enlarged kidney and degenerated tubules.

2d. Chronic parenchymatous nephritis with enlarged kidney and degenerated tubules.

3d. Acute diffuse (desquamative, interstitial) nephritis with enlarged kidney and glomeruli, tubules and connective tissue degenerated.

4th. Chronic diffuse (desquamation, interstitial) nephritis.

5th. Suppurative nephritis and pyelo-nephritis, infection may be from injury.

6th. Perinephritis: infection of connective tissue with adjacent disease.

In domestic animals the following distinctions have been made:

1st. Acute nephritis.

2d. Chronic nephritis.

3d. Purulent nephritis and pyelo-nephritis.

4th. Perinephritis.