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surgical operation at the hands of an expert veterinarian; this fact 

 furnishes no reasonable ground for the enemy to revile, because 

 the removal of a foreign body does not come within the range of 

 therapeutics at all but is a mechanical operation to effect which 

 the aid of surgery must be invoked; where, however, a true case 

 of cystitis arises which does not result from the irritation of such 

 foreign substances, then medicine will avail as successfully as in 

 all other forms of disease to which therapeutics proper are applic- 

 able. The symptoms are in many respects marvelously like those 

 of nephritis, but there are two or three special symptoms which 

 point distinctly to the bladder as the affected organ; and they are 

 as follows: A continual paddling movement with the hind legs; 

 an irritable swishing of the tail; and a more or less constant 

 dribbling away of bloody urine; under these conditions we have 

 found Belladonna 3X and Cantharis 6x administered in alterna- 

 tion, a dose every three hours, afford marked and speedy relief; 

 in cases of stone after removal by operative surgery Arnica 3X 

 three times daily should be administered, as this serves to remove 

 the general soreness of the parts and facilitates the healing pro- 

 cess. 



lyike nephritis this malady may be caused by the application of 

 a topical irritant such as Cantharides, under these circumstances 

 a few doses of Camphor spirits on moist sugar should be admin- 

 istered. 



- It will be noted under the chapter headed Colic that one of the 

 conditions then frequently affecting horses is an inability to pass 

 water; we consider that this is due to a paralyzed condition of the 

 muscular walls of the bladder, either from colds or in consequence 

 of the horse having held his water too long, under such circum- 

 stances a dose of Aconite every fifteen minutes, as a rule, affords 

 prompt relief. 



There is further a condition affecting mares wherein an inflam- 

 matory state of the organ is set up, namely, inversion of the 

 bladder; the first and most important procedure is to reduce the 

 organ to its proper site, an operation calling for the experience of 

 a trained veterinarian; but after the operation is completed, much 

 benefit will follow the internal administration of Aniica 3X for 

 several days; it will help to restore tone to the organ itself^ 



