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Those desirous of reading a more elaborate paper on 

 this subject than that of Mr. Seaman, the important parts 

 of which I have quoted, will find it in a "Prize Report" by 

 Mr. W. C. Sibbald, in XII Volume of the Journal of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England, 1851, (page 554.) 



Cystitis, oe Inflammation of the Bladdbe. — Mr. 

 Spooner says: — "Inflammation of the bladder is a rather 

 rare disease with sheep, and is chiefly confined to such as are 

 kept on artificial food, such as oil-cake, beans, &c., though 

 clover that has been mown, it is said, will produce it. There 

 are more losses from this cause than farmers are aware, it 

 being generally this disease when a sheep is said to drop with 

 water. It is mostly confined to the male sex, and principally 

 to rams, and such as are highly fed. The state of the bladder 

 appears to be that of fuUness, which shows its neck is involved 

 in inflammation, and thus becomes contracted and loses the 

 cavity. In horses, cystitis is generally attended with constant 

 staling, the bladder being so irritable as scarcely to retain a 

 drop of urine. In sheep there is the same predisposition to 

 stale, but an incapability of performing the act." Mr. 

 Dickens abstracted three pints of blood from the neck of a 

 "highly fed tup," laboring under this disease, which produced 

 fainting. "He soon rallied, and an oleagenous draught, 

 accompanied by an opiate, was given twice during the day. 

 Toward night he appeared much better, ate a little, and was 

 seen to void some very highly colored urine. His medicine 

 acted well during the night, but on the next day his straining 

 came on at times. He again bled him frorn the other side of 

 his neck to the amount of two pints, From this tim,e hp 

 continued mending." 

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