TEXT BOOK OF VETERINARY MEDICINE BY JAMES LAW, F.R.C.V.S. Director of the New York State Veterinary College Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. VOL. III DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM—GENITO-URINARY ORGANS—EYE—SKIN CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES ITHACA PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 1901 Copyright by JAMES LAW 1901 PRESS OF ANDRUS & CHURCH ITHACA, N. Y. CONTENTS DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. GENERAL SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS. TROPHIC SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS. SENSORY SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS. PSYCHIC SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS. DIAGNOSIS, SYMPTOMS AND THEIR IMMEDIATE CAUSES. LOCALIZATION OF LESION IN SPECIAL SYMPTOMS. HALLUCINATIONS. TIMIDITY. PANIC. STAMPEDE. BALKING. RESTIVENESS. DELIRIUM. VICIOUSNESS. AGGRESSIVE VICE. CATALEPSY. INSOLATION. HEAT EXHAUSTION. SUNSTROKE. THERMIC FEVER. EPILEPSY. FALLING SICKNESS. ECLAMPSIA. CONVULSIONS. SPASMS. CHOREA. ST. VITUS DANCE. CONVULSIVE TWITCHING OF THE FACE. VERTIGO. MEGRIMS. BLIND STAGGERS. CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN. LIGHTNING STROKE. ELECTRIC SHOCK. INTRACRANIAL HÆMORRHAGE AND THROMBOSIS. APOPLEXY. SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN. CEREBRAL HYPERÆMIA. MENINGO—ENCEPHALIC CONGESTION. MENINGO—ENCEPHALITIS. STAGGERS. CHRONIC HYDROCEPHALUS. DROPSY OF THE VENTRICLES. IMMOBILITY. CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS. ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN. TUBERCULAR MENINGITIS. TUMORS OF THE BRAIN. NEOPLASMS. CHOLESTEATOMA. MELANOMA OF THE ENCEPHALON. PSAMMOMATA (GRITTY TUMORS) OF THE BRAIN. MYXOMA OF THE BRAIN. ACROMEGALY. HYPERTROPHY OF THE PITUITARY BODY. CEREBELLAR DISEASE. BULBAR PARALYSIS. DISEASE OF MEDULLA OBLONGATA. LOCO POISONING. OXYTROPIS LAMBERTI. ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS LEAD POISONING. PLUMBISM. ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION. ANILINE POISONING. POISONING BY NITRO-BENZOL. POISONING BY CARBON DISULPHIDE. TETANY. CONGESTION OF THE SPINAL CORD IN THE HORSE AND COW. ACUTE MYELITIS. POLIOMYELITIS. INFLAMMATION OF THE SPINAL CORD. SPINAL MENINGITIS. ACUTE MYELITIS IN THE DOG. MENINGO-MYELITIS. CHRONIC MYELITIS. SCLEROSIS. ARTERITIS (THROMBOSIS, EMBOLISM) OF THE SPINAL CORD AND MEMBRANES. HEMORRHAGES INTO THE SPINAL MEMBRANES. Meningeal Spinal Apoplexy. Hæmatorrachis. Hemorrhage into the Spinal Cord. Spinal Apoplexy. Hæmatomyelia. SPINA BIFIDA. SPINAL CARIES. TUBERCULAR OR OTHER INFECTIVE DISEASE OF THE VERTEBRÆ. SLOW COMPRESSION OF SPINAL CORD. PARALYSIS. DILATATION OF THE CENTRAL CANAL OF THE SPINAL CORD.