2 1 2 Diseases of the Urinary Organs. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 



Diabetes Insipidus, or Profuse Staling — Retention of Urine — Oxaluria — 

 Traumatic Albuminuria — Nephritis, or Inflammation of the Kidneys — 

 Haematuria, or Blood m the Urine— Cystitis, or Inflammation of the 

 Bladder— Inversion of the Bladder. 



Setting aside direct injuries, and the effects of cold, 

 we may state the more frequent causes of disease in the 

 urinary organs are errors of diet ; but the list is not a 

 long one, as even among defective systems of feeding, the 

 animal, unlike mankind, is less an animal than himself. 

 Conditions are forced upon him, and he suffers from the 

 faults and ignorance of man. On the other hand, man 

 suffers from his own folly. Drink and gluttony seriously 

 reduce his usefulness and shorten his life. These, when 

 all things are equal, do not operate with the horse. If 

 he were left to his own choice he could show his master 

 excellent rules for living not only long, but perfectly 

 happy lives, as secured by robust and sound constitutions. 

 The higher creature, who has much to answer for, is 

 really more frequently the lower, as compared with the 

 horse. 



Diabetes Insipidus, or Profuse Urination, is the re- 

 sult of inferior food, severe work, and exposure in its 

 common form ; but it may arise in complication with 

 wasting diseases, as glanders and farcy. In the first 

 instance it may assume the form of an enzootic, owing to 

 peculiar seasons rendering the food unsuitable, and other- 

 wise defective. The principal indication is a large and 

 constant flow of pale and watery urine, a capricious appe- 

 tite, which causes the animal to lick the walls and even 

 eat dirt, excrement, &c. The condition falls off, the 

 animal is unhealthy, weak and utterly unfit for work. 



Treatment. — Aperients to rouse the bowels to orderly 

 action. Institute a proper system of feeding. Put car- 



