DISEASE OF THE URETER AND BLADDER. 495 
evinced in voiding the excrements, &c. was sympathetic action, 
produced by disease of the bladder, by the enlargement felt, 
or by both. 
I ordered that the animal be housed, be kept upon nu- 
tritious food, and have daily, Potass. Iod., gr. x. Upon the 
18th the owner came to inform me that he considered the 
animal better, though he still kept falling away. Upon the 
27th I again saw it; I now informed the owner that I con- 
sidered it to be a hopeless case, since it was very evident that 
some disorganisation had taken place. 
I would here beg to observe that the enlargement first 
spoken of could not be felt, but that an enormous weight 
could be detected pressing upon the intestine; the act of 
urinating also causing great pain. The owner desired that I 
should have him to my infirmary, not with any hope of his 
being restored, but from its being in accordance with my 
wish. He was sent in. As urinating had now become so 
painful, I determined on relieving him, by cutting down in 
the perineum, &c., which I did. I then attempted to pass a 
small sound ; but in this I could not succeed. I then 
passed a very small human catheter, and, ultimately, a small 
sound ; but I could neither succeed in detecting a calculus 
nor in emptying the bladder. From this time until I had it 
destroyed, it urinated without so much pain or difficulty; 
though still the urine escaped involuntarily, both from the 
perineum and natural orifice. 
Autopsy. — All the organs appeared healthy, except the 
urinary. Both kidneys were paler than natural ; attached 
to the left kidney was a substance the size of the body of a 
man’s hat, and full of extravasated urine. It proved to be 
a diseased ureter. Its weight, after the escape of the urine, 
was 8J lbs. 
The bladder contained about Ji v of matter, resembling 
pus, mixed with urine. Its neck was full of abnormal 
growths. 
I herewith enclose a portion of its inner coat. Through 
its walls at this part its thickness was 1 inch and |th; through 
its fundus, natural ; but its coats were diseased throughout. 
Its neck was 1 inch in thickness. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Yours truly. 
*** The portion of membrane sent appears to us to consist 
of fatty degeneration, rendered tough and leathery, internally, 
by interposed layers of fibro-cartilaginous material. — Ed. Vet. 
