SECTION VIII. 



DISEASES OF THE' URINARY ORGANS. 



Ihilammation of the Kidneys — Inflammation of the Bladder — Stone in th» 

 Bladder— Suppression of the Urine — Retention of the Urine — Diabetes, 

 or Profuse Stalling — Rupture of the Bladder — Albuminous Urins 

 Hematuria, or Bloody Urine. 



A. 



Inflammation of the Kidneys (Nephritis). 



NEPHRITIC affection is often mistaken for what soma 

 l\. persons term "sprain across the kidneys" (lumbar sprain). 

 It is a mistake of some importance, from the fact that when sprain 

 or strain is suspected, people are apt to resort to the use of irri- 

 tating embrocations or liniments, which may do much harm, as 

 their action is to augment heat and pain, which, in case of ne- 

 phritis, is to be avoided. 



Symptoms. — Hard and accelerated pulse ; quickened respiration, 

 indicative of pain ; back, arched ; legs, straddling ; the head ia 

 often turned toward the loins, or region of pain ; the animal is 

 unwilling to describe a circle with its body, and, while the acute 

 stage lasts, scarcely if ever gets down on the floor; the urine is 

 reddened and scanty ; finally, the animal crouches when pressure 

 is made over the region of the loins, and, as is the case in all acute 

 affections, thirst and loss of appetite are observable. 



Treatment — The treatment of nephritis, in the acute or inflam- 

 matory stage, is just such as would be proper supposing the case 

 to be one of enteritis, or peritonitis. Twenty or forty drops of 

 fluid extract of gelseminum may be placed on the tongue two or 

 three times, at intervals of four hours; fomentations of hops 01 

 poppy-heads (warm) should be applied to the loins, and occa- 

 sional enemas of warm water may be thrown into the rectum. 



The drink sliouH consist of what is known as flaxseed or slippery- 



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