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.