Urethritis] 3 1 4 [Urine 



given in water, or with milk and Vichy water if 

 the dog can be persuaded to take it. Small 

 doses of urotropine stimulates the action of the 

 kidneys, from one 1 to eight grains in a cachet 

 may be given every four or six hours. Hot 

 linseed-meal poultices to loins relieve the kidney 

 congestion. 



As to diet, milk and Vichy water are quite 

 sufficient to sustain the dog for two or three 

 days, when, if patient is better, fish may be 

 given, but when this cannot be digested, pep- 

 tonised milk, from one to six 1 tablespoonfuls, 

 may be given every two hours. 



Urethritis : 



Symptoms : Pain when passing water, or when 

 handled ; mattery discharge often tinged with 

 blood from passage. The penis is swollen and 

 red from the inflammation. This condition is 

 generally caused by the passage of gravel, and 

 it may also be the result of frequently passing a 

 catheter. 



Treatment : Hot poppy-head fomentations do 

 good. For medicine give from three 1 to twenty 

 grains of hyposulphite of soda in water three 

 times a day. If there is much pain, from two 1 to 

 ten drops of tincture of henbane may be given 

 with each dose of the above. 



Feed principally on a milk diet ; some boiled 

 fresh fish may be given, but meat must be 

 avoided. 



Urine (Incontinence) : See Incontinence 

 of Urine. 



1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



