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potassium bicarbonate, and buchu. Convenient for- 

 mulas are as follows: 



3 Liithii carbonas grs. ii 



Porinin grs. v 



Sodii benzoatfi grs. v 



M. et f. tablet No. XXX. 

 Sig. — Give one tablet In water every three hours. 



'^s Potassii bicarbona^ dr. iii 



Tinct. hyoscyaml. 

 PI. Ext. Tritlci. 



Syr. auranti aa oz. 1 



Aquae qs. ad oz. iv 



Sig. — Give two drams three times daily. 



In chronic cases buchu, copaiba, santal oil, or 

 other stimulating diuretics should be substituted 

 for the above. If pain and spasm are prominent, 

 use 1-200 grain of hyoscyamin, sufficient to control. 



The local treatment consists of washing out the 

 bladder, after catheterization, with, first of all, tepid 

 water, and then with a two-per-cent solution of boric 

 acid. If in addition to the other symptoms hemor- 

 rhage is constant or severe, the boric-acid solution 

 should be replaced with a 1 to 10,000 solution of 

 adrenalin hydrochlorid. In very acute cases, where 

 there is much pain and tenderness, hot fomentations 

 to the posterior portion of the abdomen gives much 

 relief, and should always be applied. 



Spasm of the Sphincter Vesicae 



This condition more often affects well-broken 

 house dogs which are not afforded an opportunity of 

 relieving themselves and whose cleanly instincts 

 will not allow them to do so in the house. The 

 long voluntary control over the sphincter finally 

 gives way to uncontrollable spasm, and the patient 

 is unable to urinate when the opportunity arises. 



Symptoms. — Repeated but ineffectual efforts to 



