516 DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 



to follow any injur}^ of a mechanical or chemical nature. 

 And should acute inflammation attack the bladder, the 

 symptoms would certainly be of a very painful and distress- 

 ing kind; such as would call for prompt and potent anti- 

 phlogistic measures, and at the same time require a deal of 

 soothing treatment to allay the extreme irritation which would 

 be sure to be present. 



Mr. Siddall (V.S., Royal Horse Guards) has at this time 

 (Nov. 4th, 1852), a case very like cystitis. The (B Troop) 

 horse, eight years old, has frequent micturition, voiding 

 small quantities of urine, never amounting hardly to half a 

 pint, with, when not staling, occasional dropping of urine 

 from the sheath. During micturition, he expresses pain 

 and annoyance, though at other times he appears in full 

 health, his condition and his appetite being good, and his 

 coat fine and shining. He suffers large quantities of dung 

 to accumulate within the colon and rectum, rather than try 

 to void it, from the act, it is imagined, giving him pain. 

 His urine is always turbid, and mostly loaded with matters 

 swimming about in it, which become deposited on stand- 

 ing, and turn out, on examination, to be, for the major part, 

 the mucous secretions of the bladder, though at times sabu- 

 lous matters are detected, of which Mr. Siddall has col- 

 lected about half an ounce. He thinks, when his hand is 

 up the rectum, he can feel some tumefaction about the 

 neck of the bladder, as though there was enlargement of 

 the prostate. The case seems to be that of (subacute) 

 cystitis. The urine, chemically tested, proved highly alka- 

 line, so much so, that it actually effervesced from the addi- 

 tion of (either acetic or muriatic) acid. I advised the 

 administration of acids. Passing the straight (gutta percha) 

 catheter daily (which was readily done by the farrier- major), 

 gave issue to the urine, and this afforded relief (though 

 every now and then its continuous stream was arrested or 

 interrupted by matters clogging the tube). So quiet and 

 willing was the horse for this operation to be performed, 

 that he not only required no twitch, but even did not need 

 a bridle, or being held by the head. 



