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Disease and probable cause. 



Symptomt 



KIDNEYS AND BLADDER 



— {Contd.) 



INFLAMMATION O F 



BLADDER, or CYS- 

 TITIS, from using too 

 much irritant medicine. 



SUPPRESSION OF 

 URINE, or STRAN- 

 GURY, from over disen- 

 tion of bladder, pressure 

 on its neck, or stone in 

 it ; or from a long 

 journejv 



DIABETES, from using too 

 strong diuretics, or ex- 

 posiu-e to wet, or eating 

 bad food, especially hay. 



THROAT- 

 GLANDERS, from neglected 

 cold, strangles, or farcy or 

 from contagion. 



STRANGLES, peculiar to 

 young horses, constitu- 

 tional, or from neglected 

 cold. 



Legs straddled, but back 

 not roached ;• urine con- 

 stantly dribbling, with 

 much pain. Bladder not 

 distended. 



Frequent straining, but 

 little voided. Horse strug- 

 gles violently and sweats 

 freely, evidently from 

 pain. 



Bladder can be distinctly 

 felt by hand inside. 



Profuse flow of urine, great 

 debility, excessive thirst, 

 gums pale, dung dark and 

 stinking, urine watery. 



Often preceded by diabetes. 

 1st stage. — Small con- 

 tant watery discharge, 

 usually from left nostrils 

 only. No cough, and 

 horse apparently in good 

 health, though inside of 

 the nostrils will be a 

 coppery or dull leaden 

 hue. 2nd stage. — Nasal 

 discharge like white of 

 eggs, sticks to the nose, 

 hard lumps adherent on 

 one or both sides of un- 

 derjaw ; nasal ulcers with 

 horrible smell ; no cough, 

 sore-throat, or fever. 



Cough, sore- thro at. ofif feed, 

 feverish ; swelling under, 

 but not adherent to, un- 

 der] aw, and abscess. 



