URINARY, ORGANS. 897 



White of egg , lpart. 



Rice -water ■, . . . 6 parts. 



DISEASES OF THE tBISARY ORGANS. 



Inflammation of the Bladder is not an uncommon disease 

 in sheep, and is supposed to be caused by feeding on second-growth 

 clover (which often contains lobelia), rag-weed, and other irritating 

 plants,, or by drinking hard water, etc. The symptoms are dull, 

 colicky pains, frequent looking at the flanks, straddling gait, twist- 

 ing of tail, slight fever, and thick and sometimes reddish urine. 

 Give spare, soft, watery diet, with linseed tea, slippery elm, or like 

 mucilaginous diet, and injections into the bladder of the following : — 



Fluid extract belladonna i 10 drops. 



Blood-warm linseed water. . i . . . J pint. 



Retention Of Urine is caused by inflammation of the blad- 

 der) or of the urethra, or by calculus or stricture. The following as 

 a dose to a large sheep is recommended by some, but it is often use- 

 less, and it becomes necessary to insert a catheter in the bladder, a 

 very difficult thing to do in the sheep. The treatment, in fact, de- 

 pends on the cause, and should be in skilled hands. 



Linseed oil ...'.. .-.2 oz. 



Laudanum ,, .2 dr. 



Sediment in The Urinary Canal is to be treated by giving 

 abundant clear water. It is said that only wethers are affected by 

 thte trouble. The urine- is seen, to pass drop by drop, and the ani- 

 mal manifests great pain and restlessriess. All the symptoms of re- 

 tention of urine appear. It is difficult to distinguish between cal- 

 culi. The wether should be placed on his back, and the penis with- 

 drawn and fomented with warm water, after which an antispasmodic 

 like the following should be injected with a syringe, to act oh the 

 neck of the bladder : — 



, Linseed water .- .3 oz. 



Fluid extractof belladonna. , .10 drops. ' 



Calculus, or Stone in the Bladder, is a disease for which 

 there is no remedy except a surgical operation^ which skilled practi- 

 tioners' only should attempt to perform. 



GONORRHEA may be treated by applying the lotion mentioned 

 below. There is a discharge of matter from the penis. The pre- 

 liminary symptoms being much like those. of retention of urine, the 

 treatment is something similar. Withdraw the penis from the 

 sheath and wash thoroughly with — 



