CYSTITIS IN THE OX.
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.