126 DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 



dribbling of urine, usually caused by a relaxed 

 state of the neck of the bladder and sometimes 

 from irritability of the bladder, as in certain dis- 

 orders of its lining membrane or from calculi, and 

 when the urine is very scanty and acid. 



Treatment: Find the cause. If it is caused by 

 relaxation, give the animal one dram of the fluid 

 extract of nux vomica three times a day; also one 

 ounce tincture of chloride of iron; these can be 

 given together in a pint of gruel or linseed tea. If 

 it is from calculi, it will have to be removed; if 

 from irritation, inject a solution of gum arabic in 

 which half an ounce of tincture of opium has been 

 mixed. If from too scanty or acid urine, give ni- 

 trate of potass, in one-half ounce doses, mixed with 

 half an ounce buchu extract, three times daily in 

 a pint of water. Incontinence of urine is some- 

 times seen in foals from nonclosure of the urachus, 

 a tube which leads from the base of the bladder 

 to the navel cord, and the urine is seen to drop or 

 run from it. The best remedy for this is to plaster 

 plenty of prepared chalk on the navel as often as 

 necessary. This will dry up the cord and cause it 

 to contract and by degrees stop the passage of 

 urine in that direction. It is bad practice to tie 

 the cord to stop it, as it is almost sure to set up 

 inflammation and kill the colt. 



Inversion of the bladder is seen in the 

 female animal, and is due to violent strain- 

 ing, although it has been seen to follow the 

 administration of irritant medicine. The symp- 

 toms are a red tumor projecting from the 



