The American reformed horse book, a treatise on the causes, symptoms, and cure of all the diseases of the horse, including every disease peculiar to America, also breeding, rearing, and management by Dadd George H

Author:Dadd, George H
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd co
Published: 1920-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

SECTION VIII.

I>I8SAS£S OF THE UBIMABT 0B0AN8.

ItL^MMATION or TUB ElDNETS—iNrLAKHATION OF THE BlaDDBB —SlOai Ul tMI BlADDEK —SuPPRF88tON Or THE CbiNS — BeTKNTIOS Of TBB UbDIE DiABCm,

OR PnorusE Stallino — Ruftube or thk Bladdeb —ALBrmsoVR UBin

H^MATUBIA, OR BlOODT UbISE.

Inflammation of the Kidneys (Nephkitis).

A NEPHRITIC affection is often mistaken for what soma persons term "sprain across the kidneys" (lumbar sprain). It is a mistake of some importance, from the fact that when sprain or strain is suspected, people are apt to resort to the use of irritating embrocations or liniments, which nv ■ ao much harm, as their action is to augment heat and pain, which, in case of nephritis, is to be avoided.

Symptoms. —Hard and accelerated pulse; quickened respiration, indicative of pain; back, arched; legs, straddling; the head ia cften turned toward the loins, or region of pain; the animal is unwilling to describe a circle with its body, and, while the acute stage lasts, scarcely if ever gets down on the floor; the urine is reddened and scanty; finally, the animal crouches when pressure is made over the region of the loins, and, as is the case in all acute affections, thirst and loss of appetite are observable.

TreatTnent. —The treatment of nephritis, in the acute or inflammatory stage, is just such as would be proper supposing the case to be one of enteritis, or peritonitis. Twenty or forty drops of fluid extract of gelseminum may be placed on the tongue two or three times, at intervals of four hours; fomentations of hops oi poppy-heads (warm) should be applied to the loins, and occasional enemas of warm water may be thrown into the rectum. The drink should consist of what is known as flaxseed or slippery-

tlm tea. Soon the inflammatory symptoms will subside, the patient will manifest some relief from pain, and the color of the urine will change, become lighter and thicker in consistence. We then discontinue the above treatment, and administer one ounce of fluid ixtract of buchu, morning and evening. This treatment, aided by rest and good nursing, usually completes the cure.

Should it be suspected that the animal has a fit of pain, caused by the " gravel," or passage or presence of urinary calculi, then (rwo Irachms of muriatic acid should be mixed in the ordinary drink, every time the animal is watered. He should also have a email quantity of powdered slippery-elm or flaxseed mixed with the food. Horses the subjects of urinary calculi pass urine which, on being caught in an earthen vessel, deposits phosphates and other earthy matter. When this occurs, and the animal has a fit of pain or gravel, we may infer, in the absence of more positive proof, that ■rinary calculi are present in some portion of the urinary apparatus,

Tkt tt.amma tton of the Bladdee (Cystitis).

The principal symptom of inflammation of the bladder is frt quent urination, accompanied by straining and pain. Sometimes the urine dribbles away, involuntarily or not, as the case may be. It appears that the least distension of the bladder causes pain; hence the effort to keep it empty.

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