280 THE DOG IN DISEASE. 



Dover's powder, suppositories, medicated injections, fo- 

 mentations, hot baths, etc. 



With care and ordinary good medical treatment, acute 

 nephritis and cystitis tend to get well. 



The chronic form of cystitis, and all affections depend- 

 ent on calculi (stones, concretions), are very troublesome. 



If stone in the bladder can be positively diagnosticated, 

 an operation may prove successful; but there are great 

 risks. 



Washing out the bladder of the female dog with anti- 

 septic and soothing warm solutions — as warm water con- 

 taining boric (boracic) acid or carbolic acid, with a little 

 morphia — is practicable, but not in the male, it is feared. 

 Attention must be directed to maintaining the strength 

 with tonics, good food, etc. 



If from any cause ursemic poisoning is threatened, the 

 bowels must be moved very freely. For this purjiose 

 jalap, in doses of fifteen to twenty-five grains, answers; 

 but calomel must on no account be used, as it is especially 

 liable to salivate. The purpose is to divert blood from 

 the head and eliminate the poison. Warm baths should 

 also be tried, keeping the head cool. 



DISEASES OF THE GENITAL ORGANS. 



These are mostly of the nature of inflammations and 

 their consequences, and morbid growths. 



Inflammation of the passage from the bladder for the 

 discharge of urine iiirethrd)^ termed urethritis, occasion- 

 ally occurs in the dog as a result of irritation from some 

 cause, including coitus with bitches similarly affected, or 

 from unhealthy discharges of some part of the genital 



