_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.