222 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



if the medicine is largely made of turpentine. This 

 will bring on an attack of inflammation of the kidneys 

 as well as weakness in the parts. A sprain in the loins 

 by a horse falling with a loaded cart, or jumping short 

 in the hunting-field into a ditch with its hind feet, 

 causing a sudden check to the muscles of the loins, is 

 another cause ; exposure to the cold rain, and being 

 allowed to cool and dry without being rubbed down, 

 will too often cause inflammation of the kidneys. 

 In this disease much difference of opinion is expressed 

 as to the treatment to be adopted ; some advocate 

 bleeding, others affirm that bleeding does no good, but 

 this is certain that as much counter irritation should be 

 given with mustard as it is possible to produce. Spanish 

 flies should not be used for blistering in this complaint, 

 as they are a powerful diuretic, and a great deal of them 

 would pass into the system by absorption, and cause an 

 increase of the mischief. The horse should be kept 

 warm, plenty of cold Avater given it to drink, its food 

 should be mash, and the following given him three times 

 a day : — White hellebone one scruple, tartar emetic one 

 drachm, linseed-meal two drachms, made into a ball with 

 treacle. If the inflammation is in the bladder and its 

 sphincture we find the same symptoms; the urine is 

 voided in small quantities, and with great difficulty, and 

 in extreme cases there is a total suppression of urine. 

 When this takes place the bladder becomes exceedingly 

 inflated under the rectum, and may be easily felt by the 

 means advised in a former page. It is a spasm that 

 causes the neck of the bladder to contract, which is 

 produced by some acid substance which lins been 



