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ties, as at page 202 ; and if the animal is disposed 

 to eat the sodden seeds, it may be permitted to 

 indulge : they are little nutritious, however, when 

 the saccharine has been drawn out by the hot 

 water. 



The food should consist of bran mashes, green 

 food, and the cooling regimen already recommended 

 in all cases of inflammation, at pages 178, 202, to 

 which the reader is earnestly referred for some 

 general directions as to his ruleand conduct, equally 

 applicable in all such cases. 



DISEASES OF THE BLADDER. 



These are really much fewer than are commonly 

 ascribed to it, the bladder being but the vehicle or 

 outlet for several evils that take their rise higher up ; 

 and among these we have already denounced the 

 alarming appearance of " bloody urine" as a dis- 

 order of the kidneys and liver, page 286. Neither 

 is the " suppression of urine," nor its converse 

 " diabetes" justly ascribable to the bladder, but to 

 the kidneys ; for, if these secrete none or imper- 

 fectly, little or none can be sent into or escape out 

 of the bladder ; but " retention of urine" may be 

 a fault of the bladder, or rather a collapsion of its 

 neck ; and the means of procuring its escape was 

 before recommended at page 1 58, &c. 



Inflammation of the bladder, (its neck) and 

 consequent " incontinence of urine," are the same 

 disorder ; the latter, being the irritating effects of the 



