SECTION VIII. 
DISEASES OF THE URINARY OBGANS. 
SVLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS—INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER—STONE IN YER 
BLappER—Sovpprrssion or THE Using—RETENTION or THE Unine~—D1s BETES, 
on Proruse StaLuing—RvPTuRE or THE BLADDER—ALBUMINOUs Unine 
Hamatveia, on Bioopy Urine. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE KipNeEys (NEPHRITIS). 
NEPHRITIC affection is often mistaken for what some 
-A_ persons term “sprain across the kidneys” (lumbar sprain). 
It isa mistake of some importance, from the fact that when sprain 
or strain is suspected, people are apt to resort to the use of irri- 
tating embrocations or liniments, which m°~ do much harm, as 
their action is to augment heat and pain, which, in case of ne- 
phritis, is to be avoided. 
Symptoms.—Hard and accelerated pulse; quickened respiration, 
indicative of pain; back, arched; legs, straddling; the head is 
cften turned toward the loins, or region of pain; the animal is 
unwilling to describe a circle with its body, and, while the acute 
stage lasts, scarcely if ever gets down on the floor; the urine iz 
reddened and scanty ; finally, the animal crouches when pressure 
is made over the region of the loins, and, as is the case in all acute 
affections, thirst and loss of appetite are observable. 
Treatment.—The treatment of nephritis, in the acute or inflam- 
matory stage, is just such as would be proper supposing the case 
to be one of enteritis, or peritonitis. Twenty or forty drops of 
fluid extract of gelseminum may be placed on the tongue two or 
three times, at intervals of four hours; fomentations of hops or 
poppy-heads (warm) should be applied to the loins, and occa- 
sional enemas of warm water may be thrown into the rectum. 
The drink should consist of what is known as flaxseed or slippery- 
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