THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXXVII. 
No. 440. 
AUGUST, 1864. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 116. 
Communications and Cases. 
CYSTITIS, FOLLOWED BY RUPTURE OF THE 
BLADDER, IN A MARE. 
By J. D. Overed, M.R.C.Y.S. 
Blofield, Norfolk; June 9, 1864. 
My dear Sir, — I have this day forwarded, per Great 
Eastern Railway, the ruptured bladder of a mare. The par¬ 
ticulars of the case I subjoin, and shall be extremely glad to 
obtain your opinion upon the same, through the medium of 
the Veterinarian , should you deem the case sufficiently in¬ 
teresting for insertion in the pages of that valuable Journal. 
I am, dear Sir, very faithfully yours, 
John D. Overed. 
To Professor Varnell, 
The subject of the present communication was a chestnut 
cart-mare, aged twelve years, which had given birth to a living 
foal about four weeks previous to my attention being directed 
to her. Assistance had been rendered by some men at work 
upon the farm, after which she was observed to void her 
urine frequently, and in small quantities, the effort being 
accompanied with slight griping pains. Nine days after par¬ 
turition she was covered by a cart-stallion, and the symptoms 
became somewhat more aggravated, the desire to urinate 
being almost continuous; but as the mare's health was not 
much impaired) her owner did not think it necessary to seek 
the aid of a veterinary surgeon. In this state the mare con¬ 
tinued, with little variation, until Monday, the 6th instant, 
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