338 INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. 



darker, almost of the colour of venous blood. The treat- 

 ment consists in giving sugar of lead, or acet. plumbi, two 

 drachms twice a day. Should this fail, the sulphates of 

 zinc, of copper, or of iron, may be tried, and at the same 

 time a seton applied over each loin. Balls made of cam- 

 phor one drachm, opium two drachms, are said to have 

 been beneficial. 



If the disease is produced from over-driving, and blows 

 over the loins, or follows calving, some hopes may be held 

 out to the proprietor. But in cases of all kinds the food 

 should be changed, and the animal may have water, in 

 which sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, one drachm to the 

 gallon, has been mixed ; but in chronic or mysterious cases, 

 it is safer to introduce the owner to some neighbouring 

 butcher. 



Sheep now and then have red water also, both of the 

 acute and the more chronic kind : housing, and feeding on 

 any sweet root, as carrots, parsneps, or in default of these 

 upon turnips, form the best means of cure, with the occa- 

 sional use of one-sixth of the medicine recommended for 

 cattle. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER, OR CYSTITIS. 



Inflammation of the bladder is said to be, but not proved, 

 to be more common among mares than horses ; but of all 

 the causes of this affection, none can compare with the 

 powerful diuretics in general use with every stable man or 

 groom. The symptoms are frequent, nay, continual, emis- 

 sions of small quantities of urine, voided with much strain- 

 ing, during which the dung commonly is passed. The 

 bladder will be felt by the greased hand passed gently up 

 the rectum, hot, tender, and contracted into a firm sub- 

 stance of about the size of a cricket ball. 



The treatment is the same as for nephritis, and equally 

 as urgent ; every precaution pointed out, when treating of 

 inflammation of the kidneys, should be rigidly adopted ; in 

 addition to which, warm water, in every gallon of which a 

 quarter of a pound of gum arable, and an ounce of crude 

 opium having been dissolved, may be injected into the blad- 



