40 ENURESIS. 



of polygonum hydropiper and lapathifolium. In all these 

 cases we should give a cathartic, and follow it up by the ad- 

 ministration of nux vomica, strychnia, and tonic preparations. 

 Cantharides maybe given in doses varying from 5 to 15 

 grains to horse or ox, repeated every other day for 8 or 10 

 days. It may be combined with strychnia. Cold water in- 

 jections into the rectum are also very beneficial. 



ALBUMINURIA BRIGHT'S DISEASE ALBUMINOUS URINE 

 ALBUMINOUS NEPHRITIS GRANULAR DEGENERATION 



OF THE KIDNEYS. 



The presence of albumen in the urine was first noticed by 

 the late Mr William Percivall as far back as 1838. Dr Bright 

 wrote on the disease as affecting man in 1847, and to this 

 day it is known as Bright's disease. Abroad the observations 

 regarding albuminous urine in the horse have been numerous, 

 but some confusion has arisen from including under this 

 head enzootic hsematuria. It was originally thought that the 

 presence of albumen in the urine depended on a specific dis- 

 ease of the kidneys, but it is seen in many conditions of the 

 system, and especially in diseases of the nervous system in 

 the lower animals. It is witnessed in horses that have been 

 overworked, and in those suffering from diuresis. Eodloff 

 says that it occurs in the contagious disease of the generative 

 organs of stallions, so prevalent in some parts of the Conti- 

 nent. Diseases of the skin and of the liver are apt to become 

 complicated by albuminuria, and in proportion to the quan- 

 tity and quality of the albumen excreted, is there danger of 

 the development of organic changes in the kidney. This 

 observation, made first by human physicians, has been con- 

 firmed by veterinarians. The circumstances under which 

 albuminous urine occurs in the horse support the views pub- 

 lished by Mr Hamon on the nervous nature of albuminuria. 



