110 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
to the loins at the onset are attended with considerable 
benefit. These may be followed by warm fomentations, 
linseed-meal or mustard poultices, and opiate enemas. Con- 
stipation should be relieved at the commencement with 
castor-oil. Frequent draughts of mucilaginous fluids should 
be given, as barley-water, solution of gum-arabic, or linseed- 
tea. ; 
The patient must be kept perfectly quiet, and, except 
most inoderate exercise, all exertion for some considerable 
time after recovery should be avoided. 
HAMATURIA, 
Signifying bloody urine, is occasionally observed in canine 
practice. 
Causes—External violence across the loins, as falls, 
bruises, undue strain on the part or parts immediately 
connected with the kidneys; it also frequently occurs from 
calculi, either renal, cystic, or urethral, which, through im 
peding the flow of urine, set up inflammatory action, or by 
their irregular edges wound the inner coat of the part in 
which they may be located, and thus cause the discharge of 
blood. 
Symptoms:—Pain in voiding urine, tenderness and heat 
in the renal region of the loins. Blood may be discharged 
without urination, during urination, or subsequent to it, 
each being dependent upon the seat of hemorrhage. 
Miller, in his “Practice of Surgery,’ observes: “The 
renal source of the hemorrhage is known by the blood 
being diffused equally through the urine ; by the expelled 
fluid containing cylindrical portions of fibrine, like small 
worms, the result of coagula in the ureter—sometimes 
colourless, sometimes of a pale pink hue; by the appear- 
ance of blood being preceded and accompanied by pain 
and heat in the loins, and other renal symptoms ; and 
