INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER (CYSTITIS). 917 



time ; a complete change of diet is indispensable ; give good sweet 

 hay; carrots are recommended. The bowels must be freely 

 opened. Iodine in doses of two drachms, once or twice a day, is 

 claimed to be a never-failing remedy, very useful in correcting the 

 thirst and checking the flow of urine. 



The following ball may be given night and morning: — 



1 drachm iodine, 



1 drachm iodide of potassium, 



1 drachm barbadoes aloes ; 



Licorice and syrup sufficient to make a ball. 



Or, give one of the following balls every night : — 



h ounce powdered opium, 

 1 ounce powdered kino, 

 1 ounce prepared chalk. 



Mix with molasses, and make six balls. 



Tonics should be commenced early. In some cases it can be 

 arrested by making him drink water with pipe-clay or peasemeal 

 shaken up in it. A run at pasture will often cure it. 



Inflammation of the Bladdek (Cystitis). 



Causes. — It may arise from the too free use of diuretic medi- 

 cines, or from the injudicious use of fly blisters or turpentine ; 

 sometimes from the presence of concretions or gravelly deposits in 

 the bladder, or an extension of spasm, or inflammation of other or- 

 gans. 



Symptoms. — Almost the same as those of inflammation of the 

 kidneys. Frequent voiding of urine in small quantities, quick 

 pulse, looks frequently at flanks, paws violently, tender when 

 pressed upon under the flanks. 



When the body of the viscus is the seat of the disease, it be- 

 comes very irritable, the urine being passed almost as soon as it 

 reaches the bladder, the act of staling being almost constantly 

 going on. 



The other symptoms are nearly analogous to nephritis ; when 

 examined by the hand in the rectum, it is found empty, hot, and 

 tender. When the neck of the bladder is the seat of the disease, it 

 will be found distended with urine, and, instead of frequent stal- 

 ing, we have almost complete suppression of uiine. 



