THE BLADDER. 217 



A dog had laboured under incontinence of urine more than two months. 

 The water was continually dropping from him. The servant told me that, 

 three months before, he had been shut into a room two days, and, being 

 a cleanly animal, would not stale until he was liberated. Soon after that 

 the incontinence of urine was observed. I gave the usual tonic balls, with 

 a small portion of opium, night and morning, and ordered cold water to be 

 frequently dashed on the perinseum. A month afterwards he was quite 

 well. 



Comparatively speaking, profuse staling is not a common disease, except 

 when it is the consequence of bad food, or strong diuretics, or actual in- 

 flammation. The cause and the result of the treatment are often obscure. 

 Bleeding, purging, and counter irritation, would be indicated to a certain 

 extent, but the lowering system must not be carried too far. The medicine 

 would probably be catechu, uva ursi, and opium. 



At times blood mingles with the urine, with or without coagulation. 

 The cause and the source of it may or may not be determined. Generally 

 speaking it is the result of some strain or blow. 



A terrier bitch, in January , 1 820, had incontinence of urine. No swelling 

 or injury could be detected. I used with her the simple tonic balls. 10th 

 January.* She is now considerably better, and only a few drops are ob- 

 served. 2nd February. The disease which had seemingly been conquered 

 began again to re-appear ; the medicine had been neglected. Again have 

 recourse to it. 4th March. The disease now appears to be quite checked 

 by the cold lotion and the balls. 



A CASE OF RUPTURE OF THE BLADDER, 



This is a singular account, and stands almost alone. 



The patient was a valuable spaniel belonging to that breed known as 

 " The Duke of Norfolk's," and now possessed in its full perfection by the 

 Earl of Albemarle. Professor Simonds shall give his own account : I 

 was informed that almost from a puppy to the time when he was two years 

 old, the dog had always been delicate in his appearance, and was observed 

 to void his urine with difficulty ; but there were not sufficient indications 

 of disease for the owner to suppose that medical attendance was necessary 

 until with a few days of his death, and then, finding that the act of staling 

 was effected with increased difficulty, and accompanied with extreme pain ; 

 that the dog refused his food, was feverish ; that at length there were fre- 

 quent or ineffective efforts to expel the urine, the dog crying out from 

 extremity of pain, and it was sufficiently evident that great mischief was 

 going on, he was placed under my care ; and even then he was walked 

 a mile and a half to my infirmary. 



My attention was immediately directed to him ; the man who brought 

 him informing me that he seemed much easier since he left home. On 

 examination, I at once pronounced that he could not recover ; in fact, that 

 he was rapidly sinking ; but, from his then state, I could give no opinion 

 with regard to the precise nature or extent of his disease. He was placed 

 upon a bed in an appropriate apartment, with directions not to be dis- 

 turbed, and in a few hours he died. 



The post-mortem appearances were the abdomen containing from four 

 to five pints of fluid, having much the character of, but more bloody than, 

 that found in cases of ascites. The peritoneum seemed to be dyed from 



