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the system, and Jielax the spasm ; but no medicine must 

 be given that would in the shghtest de^Tfiee increase the 

 flow ol urine. Sulphur, or aloes, or both combined, 

 would he indicated here. 



Should not the flow of urine be re-established, me- 

 chanical means must be resorted to. 



Inllamniation of the bladder itself is a disease more 

 frequent, and from tlie same causes, namely, cold and 

 acrid herbs. Here the animal should be bled and phy- 

 sicked, and fomented across the loins, and every diu- 

 retic medicine carefully avoided. The following drink 

 may be administered with good effect, after the bleeding 

 and purging : 



RECIPE. 



DrinJc for Inflammation of the Bladder. — Take an- 

 timonial powder, two drachms ; powdered opium, one 

 scruple. Rub them well together with a small portion 

 of very thick gruel, and repeat the dose morning and 

 night. 



STONE IN THE URINARY PASSAGES, OR BLADDER, 



Stone in the bladder may be suspected, when there 

 is much fever, accompanied by a frequent turning of the 

 head, and earnest gaze on the flanks f when the hind 

 limbs tremble, and there are ineffectual endeavors to 

 pass urine, or it is evacuated in small quantities, and 

 mingled with blood. 



The suspicion may very easily be reduced to certain- 

 ly, by examining the bladder with the hand introduced 

 into the rectum, or last gut. 



The presence of stone in the bladder having been 

 thus proved, that farmer will pursue the most judicious 

 course who sends the beast immediately to the butcher ; 

 for no medicine will dissolve it, and the animal will lose 

 condition every day. 



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