160 Diseases of the Horse, 



Should the disease advance and this suppression continue 

 for several days, the horse shows signs of intoxication, loses 

 the control of his movements, or repeats the same movement 

 over and over again ; and death takes place from the blood 

 poisoning. 



Treatment. — If the animal is seen early and is strong 

 and full blooded, a free bleeding at the outset will be of 

 much service. This should be followed up by an active 

 cathartic (for instance, No. 158), which may be aided and 

 followed with advantage by repeated injections of tepid 

 water. The loins should be wrapped in woollen cloths and 

 kept fomented with warm digitalis tea, made by stirring a 

 handful of the leaves into a bucket of boiling water. This 

 remedy is highly recommended by Prof. Williams, in cases 

 with obstinate suppression of urine. An excellent plan of 

 fomenting in such cases is by a sheep skin wrung out of hot 

 water or hot digitalis tea (p. 56). 



Moderate diuretics are called for, but violent and irritating 



ones will be very hurtful. We may use : — 



No. 163. Sweet spirits of nitre, 



Solution of acetate of ammonia, each 2 oz. 



Give in a quart of linseed tea or mucilage of slippery elm bark. 



Or, 



No. 164. Acetate of potash, 2 oz. 



Powdered camphor, 2 drachms. 



Rub the camphor with the yolks of two eggs, and mix this and the 

 potash with two quarts cf slippery elm mucilage, and give in two 

 doses three hours apart. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDEB. 



Causes. — This affection almost never attacks the lower 

 animals, except from external violence or from the adminis- 

 tration of irritating medicines, as croton oil or cantharides. 



Symptoms. — Frequent passing of cloudy urine, the act 

 being performed with evident pain and difficulty; fever and 



