1984
Wallace B. Morrison
Iowa State University
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Feline Urologic Syndrome
in the Male Cat
Paula R. Hanson, BS *
Wallace B. Morrison, DVM* *
BOOK REVIEW
Animal Pain Perception and Alleviation) Edited by though the book is devoted to a discussion of
R. L. Kitchell and H. H. Erickson, American anin1al pain, only a few of the authors are vet-
Physiological Society, Bethesda, Maryland, erinarians. The book is well organized, easy to
1983. follow, and generally easy to read. Most of the
authors have presented adequate research data
This book is a collection of papers from a that reflected the extent of our knowledge of
symposium on pain in animals, which was held pain mechanisms at the time of the sympo-
in conjunction with the 66th Annual Meeting sium. This was particularly true for the chap-
of the Federation of the American Societies for ters on descending control systems and stimu-
Experimental Biology (FASEB) in New Or- lation-produced analgesia. The chapters on
leans, Louisiana, April, 1982. The book is general anesthesia and control of pain in cats
divided into two parts: the perception of pain and dogs contain useful summaries of informa-
and the alleviation of pain. The pain percep- tion that can be found in most modern veteri-
tion section contains current information on nary pharmacology textbooks but add little in-
peripheral, spinal, and supraspinal pain mech- formation on new methods or drugs to alleviate
anisms in animals, anatomical pathways and paIn.
pain control systems, segmental neurophy- This book should be read by every scientist
siological mechanisms, stimulation-produced doing animal research in which procedures are
analgesia, behavioral procedures for the assess- employed that are painful or even potentially
ment of pain, pain assessn1ent during surgical painful. In addition, this collection of papers
manipulations and the phylogenesis of pain ex- should be of interest to various regulatory offi-
pression in animals. The section on the allevia- cials who have to be concerned about the
tion of pain is brief. It contains a discussion of health and welfare of animals used in numer-
important species differences in the absorption ous research and educational facilities. The
and biotransformation of drugs used to allevi- topic of animal pain should be of interest to all
ate pain. Also included are papers on analgesic practicing veterinarians; therefore, this book
drug evaluation procedures in horses and a may be of value to those practitioners who are
summary of common agents used to control well-versed in neuroanatomy and neurophy-
pain in dogs and cats. siology.
Most of the papers were written by authori-
ties in their respective fields. Interestingly, even -DR. D. D. DRAPER