34 VETERINARY 



Opium has occasionally been found serviceable 

 in this disease ; and, when deemed necefsary, may 

 be used in the following manner : 



Take of the best opium in powder, one dram ; 

 linseed in powder, half an ounce ; mucilage 

 of gum arabie fufneient to form the ball. 



The above ball may be given every other day ; 

 but if the disase proceeds from calculi, we have but 

 small hopes of effecting a cure. We can only 

 mitigate the symptoms, by a frequent use of the 

 medicines before advised. 



After the symptoms are removed, a courfe of 

 the balls, as recommended in page 82, may b£ 

 given with advantage. 



In spasm of the neck of the bladder, the symp- 

 toms are similar to those of inflammation of the 

 kidneys ; supprefsion of urine being the conse- 

 quence *; This disease is easily distinguished from 

 those of the kidneys ; by the hand being intro- 



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* This disease most frequently proceeds from a too long 

 retention of urine on a long journey, or too long continued 

 exercise; the horse not being permitted to stale, his bladder 

 becomes so much distended by the accumulating urine, as 

 to lose its contractile powers. 



