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Liquorice and syrup sufficient to make a ball. Tonics should 

 be commenced early. In some cases it can be arrested by 

 making him drink water with pipe-clay or peasemeal shaken' 

 up in it. A run at pasture will often cure it. 



INFLAMMATION OE THE BLADDEE (CYSTITIS.) 



The bladder may be inflamed in its body or neck ; the 

 former is rarely seen, the latter occasionally. 



Causes. — It may arise from the too free use of diuretic 

 medicines, or from the injudicious use of fly blisters or 

 turpentine ; sometimes from the presence of concretions or 

 gravelly deposits in the bladder, or an extension of spasm, 

 or inflammation of other organs. 



Symptoms. — When the body of the viscus is the seat of 

 the disease, it becomes very irritable, the urine being passed 

 almost as soon as it reaches the bladder — the act of staling 

 being almost constantly going on. 



The other symptoms are nearly analogous to nephritis; 

 when examined by the hand in the rectum, it is found empty, 

 hot, and tender. When the neck of the bladder is the seat 

 of the disease, it will be found distended with urine, and, 

 instead of frequent staling, we have almost complete sup- 

 pression of urine. 



Treatment. — The treatment resembles that recommended 

 for npphritis — which see. Should the contraction of the neck 

 continue, a gum elastic catheter should be introduced, or a 

 little warm oil may (in the mare) be injected into the bladder. 

 Small doses of bicarbonate of soda or potash should be 

 given to neutralise the urine, which is usually acid. 



UEINAET CALCULI. 



Healthy " urine consists of water, holding in solution cer- 

 tain animal and saline matters as its ordinary constituents, 



