LDIOPATHIC HCEMATURIA. 45 



Treacle, as much as sufficient to make into a ball with a 

 little common mass. The dose to be repeated several times 

 if necessary. 



Idiopathic Hcematuria is a disease observed under a great 

 variety of circumstances. It occurs in the horse, cattle, and 

 sheep, as an enzootic disease, and it is remarkable that there 

 are districts where the disease prevails amongst horses, there 

 are others where it prevails amongst cattle of all kinds, male 

 and female, and there are others where it affects only cows 

 after parturition. 



Emootic Hcematuria of Horses. This malady has been 

 described by the Germans under the head of "Schwarze 

 Harnwinde." It prevails in Bavaria, and especially on the 

 borders of the Danube. It has been regarded as a blood 

 disease; it occurs in horses, and very rarely in mares, and 

 its victims die in the course of from one to three days. 



Symptoms. Stiff gait, weakness of the hind-quarters, fre- 

 quent pulse, redness of visible mucous membranes, anxious 

 expression of countenance, and sweating; a remarkable 

 swelling of great firmness occurs over the loins and hips, and 

 there is a copious discharge of urine of a very dark red or 

 brown colour. Great difficulty of breathing ensues, tetanic 

 symptoms supervene, and death. 



Post-mortem appearances reveal the dark semifluid condi- 

 tion of the blood, ecchymoses, absence of any inflammatory 

 complications, soft condition of liver and kidneys, and dis- 

 tension of the bladder by a dark-coloured urine. 



The treatment resorted to consists in blood-letting, purga- 

 tives, and then followed up by the astringents recommended 

 above for traumatic haematuria. 



The other forms of idiopathic haematuria have been classi- 

 fied by Hering under two heads sthenic and asthenic. 



The sthenic hcematuria is connected with active conges- 



