Diseases of the dog and their treatment (1897) (20779080650)

Title: Diseases of the dog and their treatment
Identifier: diseasesofdogthe01ml (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Müller, Georg Alfred, 1851-1923; Glass, Alexander, ed. and tr
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. H. Hoskins
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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174 DISEASES OF THE URINARY AND SEXUAL APPARATUS. and are produced from a number of reasons. One frequent cause of this condition is seen in house dogs that cannot get outside, and retain the urine for a long time, producing extreme distention of the bladder. It is also caused by obstructions of various kinds, which prevent the passage of the urine, such as hypertrophy of the prostate, strictures of the urethra, and by weakness of the muscular coat of the bladder, caused by chronic catarrh of that organ. Certain diseases of the nervous system also produce this condition. Fig. 52.
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Apparatus aud method of irrigating the bladder in the dog. There are two forms of this disease : Paralysis of the Detrusor and Paralysis of the Sphincter Vesicae. It is quite common to find both conditions present in one animal. In the first con- dition the bladder becomes so distended that its elasticity is lost, and the muscular coat loses its power of contraction, and, finally, when the bladder is so distended that the connective tissue alone holds it and presses on the sphincter vesicae and overcomes it, the urine trickles out in small quantities. This is termed over- flowing of the bladder (urination by incontinence). When the