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.