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oils : castor i to 2 pints, linseed 2 pints, or olive 2 pints, are 

 especially to be recommended in this respect, but 1' Homme advises 

 manna, and calomel may also be used as a substitute. Injections 

 of warm water are valuable in unloading the rectum and colon, 

 soothing the kidnej's and soliciting peristalsis. 



A restricted amylaceous diet is essential, and a warm stall or 

 abundant clothing. Grooming or active rubbing of the skin 

 tends to active derivation and often materially relieves. The case 

 should not be abandoned until a day or two after the urine has re- 

 turned to the normal, and for some time special care should be 

 taken of the diet, stabling and work. 



ACUTE CONGESTION OF THE KIDNEYS IN CATTLE. 



Causes: infection, toxins, etc., irritant diuretics, chills, moulting, swill. 

 Lesions : cortical kidney congestion, red to black, softening friability ; 

 urine limpid to red, with blood globules, albumen, and crystals. Symptoms : 

 chill, tender loins, colic, straining, recovery in four days. Diagnosis : from 

 haemoglobinuria, cystitis, calculus. Prevention : diet, etc. Treatment : 

 laxatives, flax seed, wet compresses, bromides, camphor, disinfectants, 

 bitters. 



Causes. In cattle this malady is largely traceable to the .same 

 causes as in the horse, and is very often but a complication of 

 some other affection. The renal congestion of infectious diseases 

 is seen in the advanced stages of lung plague, in anthrax, in 

 malignant catarrh, in hsemoglobinaemia, and implies an ac- 

 cumulation of irritant toxins in the system. The abuse of 

 diuretics, the ingestion of acrid diuretic plants, including 

 the early shoots of the coniferse, the introduction through 

 any channel- of cantharides or potato beetles, the drinking of 

 stagnant water charged with deleterious fermentation pro- 

 ducts, the consumption of musty or spoiled fodder, and tlie sud- 

 den change to the succulent grasses of spring, operate as in the 

 horse. So it is with cutaneous chills, cold stone floors, cold wet 

 storms, draughts and dropping from a leaky roof. The shed- 

 ding of the coat in spring is an undoubted predisposing cause. 



Cattle in the swill stables of breweries and distilleries are the 

 subjects of a constant renal congestion and polyuria, which, 

 however, does not prevent rapid fattening. This diet, how- 



