520 INFLAMMATION AND^ALCULISION OF THE BLADDER. 
as far back as he could, and sank his back : sometimes he 
stretched only one hind leg for a minute, and then brought it 
forward, and stretched the other. 
He moved briskly, but did not pass any faeces in the close, 
nor on his journey home, which was about a mile and a half. 
He would eat nothing. Two doses of purgative medicine were 
given to him in the course of the day. On raking him, the 
rectum was empty, but nothing unusual was to be felt. 
29 ih — He had eaten two or three mouthfuls of hay, and drunk 
two gallons of water. He had passed a few small pieces of pub 
taceous dung. The other symptoms were the same. More pur- 
gatives and febrifuge medicine and clysters were given. I 
thought him gut-tied, and proposed to operate on him on the 
following day. 
30 th . — He is better in appearance — had grazed a little, and 
frequently voided small quantities of black watery faeces, with 
some pain and straining afterwards. 
On examination per anum the bladder felt empty, and the 
gut full of thin faeces. 
I suspected that some tumour existed in the abdomen which 
prevented the passage of the dung, as it was evident the medi- 
cine was purging him. He could not, however, be any longer 
gut-tied. I gave a small dose of oleaginous mixture. 
July IsL — Bowels as before. No appetite. Worse. On 
looking at him, I thought 1 observed a few drops of sticky urine; 
and a few minutes afterwards I caught a little which was drip- 
ping from him, and nearly as red as blood. I gave some oil and 
diuretic mixture. 
2d . — No better. He purges in very small quantity. What 
urine trickles away is as clear as crystal. No appetite. 
3d. — Worse. Was killed. In the abdomen were two buckets- 
ful of fluid, which no doubt was principally urine. 
There was no disease in the paunch or intestines, but the pre- 
sence of the urine in so large a quantity had produced a loss 
of appetite, and nearly an insensibility to the action of the pur- 
gatives. The bladder was collapsed. You will , find an opening 
in the fundus (through which the urine escaped) effected by 
ulceration of the coats. 
I made an incision in the side, in order to examine the lining 
member of the vessel and its contents. There was a considera- 
ble quantity of small calculi in the bladder. 
There was great scirrhosity of the bladder throughout the whole 
of it, shewing chronic inflammation of long standing, as I think. 
The owner told me, on the 29th, that the bullock never throve 
so well as his fellows in the winter ; probably from the irritation 
