Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)Law, James
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Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)
Law, James
Veterinary medicine
_Special Symptoms._ Beside general disorder there is a disposition to
decubitus, but with frequent rising to urinate though the bladder is not
filled to repletion. Then the urine is passed in a slow stream by
abdominal contraction, and without pulsating contractions of the urethra
at the ischium which are so marked in calculus. Cystitis is greatly
aggravated by overdistension, and if the bladder is paralyzed is very
liable to go on to rupture.
Galtier considers enzootic hæmaturia as essentially a hæmorrhagic
cystitis, due to marshy soils, disordered liver, often distomatosis, and
irritation of the urinary organs by the poisons which the liver was
helpless to destroy or eliminate.
The _treatment_ of cystitis in cattle does not differ materially from
that of the horse.
The hæmorrhagic form demands prevention by drainage, cultivation and the
use of phosphates to the soil.
CYSTITIS IN DOGS.
The _special symptoms_ in dogs are uneasiness and frequent changes of
place. The patient passes urine often in small quantity, and with whines
or cries. He walks slowly and stiffly with the back arched, and
compression of the abdomen and especially of the prepubian region is
painful to a marked degree. The tense elastic bladder may often be
distinctly felt through the abdominal walls. The inflamed bladder is
liable to paresis and paralysis with great overdistension, and
aggravation of the general symptoms, the eyes sunken, and dullness,
stupor and coma betraying uræmic poisoning. Some claim rupture of the
bladder as is so common in the ox.
In the main, _treatment_ is as for the horse. Rest, warm bath, or
fomentations, catheterism with aseptic catheter, draw urine through
hypodermic nozzle in prepubian region. Antiseptics: boric or salicylic
acid by the mouth and bladder. Laxatives, and plenty of water are
important. Free access to open air where the animal can urinate, is very
essential. In chronic cases, buchu, copaiba, balsams, or piperazine may
be employed. Mustard blister. Electricity. Small doses of belladonna to
give tone to the bladder.
ATONY AND PARALYSIS OF THE BLADDER.
_Causes._ This comes usually from troubles of innervation. Paraplegia,
dorsal and lumbar fractures with injury to the spinal cord, brain
lesions, hæmoglobinuria with effusion pressing on the cystic plexus,
overdistension of the viscus, from cervical spasm, urethral stricture or
calculus or parasite (strongylus gigas), acute or chronic cystitis. In
dogs it may come from obstruction by enlarged prostate. Polypus blocking
the cervix and chronic disease of the walls of the organ are additional
causes.
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