ISO INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS, &C. 



CHAP. XXVII. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS, INFLAMMATION 

 OF THE BLADDER, AND PROFUSE STALING. 



Diseases of the urinary organs, as the kidneys 

 and bladder, do not unfrequently occur in the 

 horse ; and when they do, are, without much dif- 

 ficulty, distinguished from other diseases by the 

 symptoms mentioned in this chapter. The kid- 

 neys perform the important office of secreting the 

 virine from the blood, and are therefore organs 

 very essential to life; when their functions are 

 impaired by disease, the urine becomes altered in 

 quantity and appearance, and the general health 

 of the animal is soon affected. 



I shall first describe iniflammation of the kidneys, 

 which is known to exist by the following symptoms : 

 the horse appears dull and feverish ; loss of appe- 

 tite; he flinches, if his loins are pressed rather 

 forcibly with the fingers, or by any thing else ; the 

 urine he stales is in small quantities, highly co- 

 loured, and turbid ; and sometimes bloody, parti- 

 cularly when the inflammation arises from external 



