CYSTITIS. 909 
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one can look upon a horse suffering from nephritis, without feeling that, 
in sensibilities at all events, the two creatures are alike. Sympathy 
has been interpreted to mean no more than a conscious similarity of 
emotion. Such a definition must be erroneous, or more sympathy would 
actuate man toward his slave. The life is devoted to the service of the 
master. The body is disabled before its time for the pleasure of man- 
kind. The horse is such a slave as no words can express. It lives but 
to obey. Its master’s whim is the animal’s joy. It is happy to exist 
where and how its superior may appoint. Still there is no sympathy 
felt toward its tortures, no feeling evinced for its sufferings: its life is 
one long solitude, its death is the degradation of misery. Were man to 
read of some wild beast capable of such sincere docility, what pains 
would not be spent to secure so valuable a companion! The animal is 
beside him and it is disregarded; or its goodness is converted into the 
means for its mutilation. 
The additional treatment of nephritis consists more in the food than 
in the physic; linseed, both the seeds and the infusion, may be given for 
the body’s support. The best oats should be procured upon recovery, 
and the quality of the hay also should be attended to; as for physic, 
that is almost limited to belladonna and to aconite. Belladonna is 
administered mixed with four times its amount of opium, so long as the 
pain is acute. 
Extract of belladonna . . . . . . . . . Halfa drachm. 
Crude opium . ....... =... . Two drachms. 
Make into a ball with linseed meal and honey; give three daily while 
the symptoms require them; or, should the pain be excessive, administer 
one every hour. 
The aconite root is intended to lower the circulation. When the 
pulse is quick and hard, a scruple of the powder may be thrown upon 
the tongue every half hour, till the beat of the artery soften, or till the 
animal appear to be affected by the medicine. The above measures are 
to be adopted without regard to the calomel and opium previously 
recommended. 
A horse having survived one attack of nephritis, can scarcely, how- 
ever successful may be the treatment, be restored to its original condition. 
The glands which have suffered inflammation must be left in an irritable 
state. 
CYSTITIS—INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. 
This disorder is somewhat rare in the horse. Few cases have occurred ; 
even those were not strongly marked. Besides the general indications 
present during nephritis, such as quickened breathing, accelerated pulse, 
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