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attempts to pass urine are unfruitful, or only a few drops pass with pain and 
difficulty, followed by a temporary cessation of pain; urine sometimes clear, 
at other times mixed with mucous or bloody matter, burning and irr‘tating; 
the parts around the bladder are hot and tender, and this organ is found 
very painful when examined through the rectum. If the disease is not ar- 
rested, the bladder fills and swells, its neck opens and urine dribbles away; 
prostration follows, with sweats, paralysis of the hind quarters, and finally 
death. 
Test FOR INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. 
TrREATMENT.—Give aconite for symptoms of fever; frequent, fruitless, 
painful attempts to pass urine; pain on pressure of the parts near the bladder; 
urine scanty, muddy, or mixed with blood. Cantharis is demanded by dis- 
tended bladder and tenderness of adjacent parts; mattery and mucous urine 
passed in drops, the pain increasing during such passages. Should cantharis 
fail, give nux vomica. Injections of anodynes into the bladder, by skillful 
hands, are very useful for relieving the inflammation, and the following 
will be especially valuable: To one pint of gum-arabic water add one 
drachm of fluid hydrastia and one drachm of tincture of opium; inject this 
into the bladder luke-warm. In the general care, give freely of linseed or 
slippery-elm tea, or a strong solution of gum-arabic. Scalded linseed in 
bran-mashes is the best diet. Guard against the exciting causes. 
SPASM OF THE NECK OF THE BLADDER. 
This occurs as the result of prolonged retention of urine in horses that 
are worked or driven to excess, and as a consequence of chill when the 
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