THE HORSE—THE URINARY AND GENERATIVE ORGANS. 141 
kidney-complications. If injuries be the cause, the loins are painful, and 
clots of blood pass, with or without urine. If vegetable poison be the cause, 
the feverish symptoms of inflammation of the kidneys are present, with 
scanty, reddish urine, followed by painful, bloody, burning urine. 
TREATMENT.—If the cause be some other disorder, treat that disorder 
as directed under the proper section. If a blow about the loins or a strain 
be the cause, and blood is mixed with the urine, give arnica internally and 
apply externally. Throw cold water over the loins and inject it up the 
rectum. Rest should be given. Give aconite for feverish symptoms and 
strong urine. Cantharis is needed for forcible, painful efforts to urinate, 
with blood or bloody urine passed. Turpentine is desirable for clotted 
blood passing from the bladder, and is useful if cantharis fails. Give soft 
food; also linseed-tea freely. If hurtful plants be the cause, remove the 
horse to another locality. 
FOUL. 
Foul is a term applied to horses that experience great trouble in 
urinating, chiefly in dry, hot, dusty weather. It is caused by a clogging of 
the sheath of the penis with dirt and urine. : 
Symptoms.—The horse evinces much uneasiness; shifts the weight 
from one side to the other; stands with the hind legs apart; makes fre- 
quent efforts to urinate, but stops suddenly as if suffering from acute and 
darting pains. The urine dribbles away, and is more or less foul-looking 
and offensive; the sheath is swollen; the region of the bladder is distended. 
from the retention of urine, and is sensitive to the touch. 
TREATMENT.—The only cure is in a thorough cleansing of the sheath. 
with the hand, warm water and a syringe. 
GONORRHEA. 
This sometimes occurs in stallions and mares after sexual intercourse, 
and sometimes is infectious. 
Sypmtoms.—In stallions, swelling and ulcers about the penis; swell- 
ing of the testicies and glands in the loins. In mares, swelling and itching 
in the vulva and vagina, where vesicles form, followed by ulcers. Either 
sex shows a stiff walk; loss of flesh and vivacity; death from putrid fever 
or possibly apoplexy. 
TREATMENT.—For acute and violent inflammation give five or six 
drops of aconite once in three or four hours. After the violence of the 
inflammation has been reduced with aconite, give cantharis in its stead.. 
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