518 - DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



and then very cautiously. Intelligent owners give but very little 

 medicine. Instead, they give bran mashes, etc., with good air, reg- 

 ular exercise, and grooming.* 



Symptoms. — The intense thirst first attracts attention ; he is 

 constantly craving for water, and rapidly loses condition ; the coat 

 becomes rough and staring ; he passes large quantities of clear urine, 

 his litter being constantly wet. He will be seen poking among his 

 litter, which he often eats with avidity in preference to good hay. 

 If it goes on unchecked, great prostration sets in, the heart beats 

 tumultuously, the throbbing being often visible at the side, the pulse 

 being irregular and intermittent. 



Treatment. — It is generally very easily checked if taken in 

 time ; a complete change of diet is indispensable ; give good sweet 

 hay ; carrots are recommended. The bowels must be freely opened. 

 Iodine in doses of two drachms, once or twice a day, is claimed to 

 be a never-failing remedy, very useful in correcting the thirst and 

 checking the flow of urine. 



The following ball may be given night and morning : — 



Iodine , 1 dr. 



Iodide of potassium ; ; . .1 dr. 



Barbadoes aloes ; 1 dr. 



Licorice and syrup sufficient to make a ball. 



Or, give one of the following balls every night :— 



Powdered opium £ oz. 



Powdered kino 1 oz. 



Prepared chalk t ........ , ?. : 1 oz. 



Mix with molasses, and make six balls. 



Tonics should be commenced early. In some cases it can be, 

 arrested by making him drink water with pipe-clay or pease-meal 

 shaken up in it. A run at pasture will often cure it. 



Inflammation of the Bladder (Cystitis). 



Causes. — It may arise from the too free use of diuretic medi- 

 cines, or from the injudicious use of fly blisters of turpentine ; 

 sometimes from the presence of concretions or gravelly deposits in 

 the bladder, or an extension of spasm, or inflammation of other 

 organs. 



Symptoms. — Almost the same as those of inflammation of the 

 kidneys. Frequent voiding of urine in small quantities, quick pulse ; 

 looks frequently at flanks, paws violently, tender when pressed upon 

 under the flanks. 

 / When the body of the viscus is the seat of the disease, it be- 



