150 11UPTURK OF THK BLADDER. IN TWO TUPS. 
to his former feeding. He continued to do well till the 21st, when 
I received a message, stating that he was “ purging large quan- 
tities of blood. ” I sent six balls, composed of opium, chalk, &c. 
to be given morning and evening. In two days the purging 
ceased, and he has since been well. 
RUPTURE OF THE BLADDER IN TWO TUPS. 
By the same . 
March 16, 1841, I was called to attend a tup of the Cheviot 
breed, the property of the same gentleman. I found the beauti- 
ful animal very uneasy, constantly shifting his hind legs, and 
frequently straining as if to void his urine. He was stiff and un- 
willing to move. There was a quick and faltering motion of the 
heart, accompanied by great difficulty in breathing. The abdomen 
was much enlarged, and tender on pressure; he was also costive. 
I immediately gave him a cathartic drink, as he had been pre- 
viously bled by the shepherd, threw up enemata, and ordered a 
pint of thin gruel to be given every two hours, and, if the medi- 
cine did not operate in six hours, to repeat half the former quan- 
tity, adding a little nitre. Frequent fomentations of warm 
water were also to be applied to the abdomen. 
1 7th, 8 a.m. — Evidently worse. Repeat the cathartic and diu- 
retic medicine, &c. He died at two o’clock p.m. 
The post-mortem appearances presented the penis inflamed, 
and in various parts ulcerated. On laying open the abdomen 
there escaped upwards of four gallons of a red watery fluid ; the 
intestines were inflamed; the stomach slightly so; the third sto- 
mach was quite full and hard ; the bladder highly inflamed and 
ruptured near its apex ; the kidneys slightly inflamed. The con- 
tents of the thorax were healthy. 
The second case occurred two days subsequent to the first. I 
had no opportunity of seeing it, but was informed that the ani- 
mal was precisely in the same state as the former. 
These tups were with others preparing for the Highland So- 
ciety’s show at Berwick, and their feeding consisted of oil-cake, 
beans, peas, corn, hay, turnips, and grass. I recommended the 
feeding of the rest of the flock to be reduced, and their pasture 
changed, and they have all done well since. Mr. Craig, the 
owner of the above animals, is perhaps the most successful breeder 
of Cheviot sheep in Scotland. He gained the greater part of the 
prizes at the Highland Society’s shows at Inverness in 1839, at 
Aberdeen in 1840, and also at Berwick last year. 
