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INCONTINENTIA URIN^E. 
free from wounds or ulcers, and on being drawn out, shewed no 
traces of disease. 
The extreme sensibility of these parts appeared to me to be 
rather owing to the various manipulations which the animal had 
already undergone than to the actual disease itself. When the 
animal stood still, the urine only fell drop by drop from the urethra. 
It appeared to be mingled with matter of a whitish colour, 
and gluey and tenacious, the drops assuming a long pendulous 
form before they fell to the ground. If the animal was turned 
round in the stall, the urine contained in the bladder was immedi- 
ately poured out ; and I often caught several ounces at once by 
holding a vessel underneath with one hand, while with the other I 
compelled the animal to move. If the penis was drawn out of 
its sheath, and gently pressed, the urine which immediately 
flowed from it was red and mingled with blood ; but the animal did 
not appear to suffer any pain. On examination through the rec- 
tum I was unable plainly to distinguish the urinary bladder, an 
evident token that it was not filled with urine. The animal, while 
staling, never assumed the usual position of a gelding, nor did the 
operation appear to take place voluntarily. Little or no thirst was 
evinced, and when I saw him, although he had travelled four 
miles, he drank but little of the water offered to him, although it 
was very good, and the weather by no means cool. 
I ordered the radix tormentillse, with bitter and spicy admix- 
tures, to be taken inwardly, and desired that the surrounding parts 
should be repeatedly washed, in the course of the day, with cold 
water, in which sufficient alum had been dissolved to give it a 
strong astringent taste. After the fourth day’s pursuance of this 
treatment blood ceased to flow on the penis being drawn out and 
pressed, but all the other symptoms remained in statu quo. The 
owner, who resided at some considerable distance, now sent the 
animal to me, requesting me to receive him into my infirmary, 
which I gladly did, as I wished to have daily opportunity of 
watching the case. I now gave internally : — 
Sacchari saturni 311 
Pulv. hyoscyami ^iij 
Rad. calami 
Farinae secalinae, aa Jij 
Aq. font, q, s. ut fiat electuarium. 
A fourth part to be given each day. I ceased to apply the ex- 
ternal fomentations, and diminished his daily food to two measures 
of oats, a little chopped fodder, and three pounds of hay. 
In the course of eight days I gradually increased the dose of 
sugar of lead to half an ounce, and then suspended all internal 
