SECTION XI 



DISEASES OF THE PROSTATE, URETHRA 



AND PREPUCE 



Urethral CalciUi 



CALCULI in the urethra are very common in 

 certain districts and cause great pain and dis- 

 tress 'to the patients afflicted with them. The cal- 

 culi may lodge anywhere in the urethra, but are 

 more often found at or near the posterior extremity 

 of the OS penis. They vary greatly in size. 



Symptoms. — The symptoms of urethral calculi are 

 similar to those of cystic calculi. The animal is 

 restless and evinces pain ; makes frequent but unsuc- 

 cessful, or but partially successful, attempts to uri- 

 nate ; there is some discharge of blood ; the 

 abdomen becomes enlarged and is painful, on ma- 

 nipulation; the bladder is tightly filled and finally 

 ruptures if not relieved or if death from uremic 

 poisoning does not supervene. The absence of the 

 stone in the bladder and the limited distance tliat 

 the catheter can be introduced are means of dif- 

 ferentiating between cystic calculi and urethral 

 conditions. 



Treatment. — If the bladder is much distended it 

 must be evacuated by suprapubic puncture. A 

 catheter should be passed up the urethra to the 

 calculus, an incision made down to it, and the cal- 

 culus removed. The wound is best left unsutured 

 and treated as an open wound. 



Urethritis 

 (Catarrhal Inflammation of the Urethral Mucosa) 



Urethritis is the result of infection which mav 

 extend from the bladder, be introduced by a dirty 



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