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MODEKN VETEKINAKY PRACTICE. 



[btbakouaht. 



four quarts of blooi.1 from him, aiul kot'p Iiim 

 warm. 



STRANUU.\RY. OR OBSTRUCTION OF URINli:. 



Thi3 disease consists of an obstruction, or 

 temporary suppression of urine, and may arise 

 from dilVorent causes ; for, the parts appro- 

 priated to the secretion and excretion of urine 

 are so numerous, that the exact cause of the 

 disease becomes a matter of ambiguity and 

 uncertainty, even to very good judges. 



Stranguary, sometimes, is a concomitant of 

 inflammatory colic, and is then the effect of 

 pressure from the indurated ficces, or hardened 

 dung, retained in the rectum. AVhen it docs 

 not arise from this cause, it may proceed from 

 inflammation of the kidneys themselves, from 

 ulceration, spasms in any particular part, in- 

 flammation of the neck, or the bladder itself. 



"When it is the consequence of colic, and 

 proceeds only from that cause, it may be con- 

 sidered merely symptomatic, and may be en- 

 tirely subdued on its first appearance, Tlie 

 signs of the suppression are too palpable to be 

 mistaken. The animal is in an almost per- 

 petual position to stale, without effect — indi- 

 cating, by action and attitude, the expectation 

 of an unusual discharge ; when, after frequent 

 straining, the effort terminates in a groan of 

 seeming disappointment. He does not, in 

 general, appear in acute pain, but seems full in 

 the flank, somewhat dejected, and, to a minute 

 observer, appears not only conscious of his 

 inability to stale, but as if supplicating assis- 

 tance and relief. 



The most certain means of affording relief 

 is to abstract about three or four quarts of 

 blood, which will re);?x the parts ; then intro- 

 duce the hand into the rectum, and remove all 

 hardened dung. This operation — which, by 

 the old farriers, is called hack-raking — being 

 done, throw up an emollient clyster, com- 

 posed of — 



Thin Gruel .... 3 pints. 

 Common Salt .... 3 table-spoonfuls. 



Let this be injected nwiderattrly warm, and 

 retained in the body as long an posMible, by 

 keeping the tail pressed down against tlio 

 fundament. If the bleeding and clvMlcru have 

 not iuid the desired effect in a moderalu time 

 repeat the clyster, and give — 



C:>mi)lior 2 (Irachin*. 



Nine 1 (,/.. 



Form into a ball witli treacle. 

 Administer as soon as possible. 



These are safe, mild, and efficacious mea- 

 sures, and, in general, produce the desired 

 effect, without any uneasy sensations, liepeat 

 the remedies every four or five hours, until the 

 object is gained. 



Tlius much for stranguary occasioned by 

 spasm, or inflammation of the neck of the 

 bladder; but it may proceed from inflam- 

 mation or ulceration of tiie kidneys, accom- 

 panied with a paralytic afl'ection or palsy of 

 the parts; in either of which, symptoms are 

 frequently doubtful, and seldom certain. Cir- 

 cumstances may constantly vary in different 

 subjects, so as to render the true seat of 

 disease a matter of conjecture only. 



Tiie only symptoms to which some certainty 

 may be attributed are the following : — If pro- 

 ceeding from spasm, on either part, there may 

 be frequent periodical relaxations, which will 

 permit the urine to flow in small quantities 

 for a very short time, when it may as suddenly 

 stop. In this case, the urine will be of its 

 usual colour, or at times rather darker, as if 

 not perfectly complete in its secretion from 

 the blood. In such a case the treatment 

 should be as just pointed out, but with the 

 addition of repeating the bleeding. 



AV^here the case originates in palsy, or ulce- 

 ration of any of the above-named organs, ful- 

 filling the functions of the evacuations, no 

 great expectation of cure can be indulged in, 

 especially if the case is really one of palsy, 

 which approaches certain death, and which ex- 

 hibits all tlie characteristics of the most dan- 

 gerous species of disease. 



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