838 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



of this disease the reader is referred to the account given in the Horse 

 department of this work, — Chapter XIII., of Part II. 



What to do. — ^The system needs to be 

 toned up, the blood improved, and swellings 

 fomented in hot water. Foment the head 

 especially, as continuously as possible, and 

 give the following recipes: 



No. 12. 1 Ounce oil of turpentine, 



%, Pint linseed oil, 

 Mix. 



^. , i.xi X' 1 SWELLING OF THE JAWS, 



Give as one dose; repeat three times a day, cheeks and muzzle, in 

 for two or three days. purpura hemorrhagica. 



No. 13. K Ounce tincture muriate of iron, 



1 Ounce tincture of cinchona, 



2 Ounces water, 



Mix. 



Give as one dose ; repeat three times a day, giving it in between the 

 doses of No. 12. As to food, give whatever the animal will eat. 

 VII. Haematuria, or Red Water in Cattle. 



As the name implies, this is a blood disease. Large quantities of albumen 

 and some iron are secreted by the kidneys and excreted with the urine, 

 which looks as though it were colored by blood, beginning, as it does, in a 

 pale pink color, and running through the different shades till it becomes 

 a dark brown. Really, there is no blood in it; the appearance in ques- 

 tion is due to the presence, in excessive quantities, of albumen and iron 

 and the coloring matter of the blood. As the secretion of the two 

 former increases, the color darkens. There are also discharged numer- 

 ous epithelial cells from the mucous membrane of the kidneys and 

 bladder. The blood undergoes a change ; the cells or corpuscles break, 

 and lot their contents escape into the liquor sanguinis, and hence the 

 commingling of the coloring matter of the blood with the urine. 



Causes. — These are obscure, but seem to depend in some way upon 

 the food. Most commonly seen in cattle pastured in low, swampy lands, 

 the disease disappears in such cases wheu the land is drained. 



How to know it. — In addition to the eolor of the urine, a characteristic 

 feature is the great increase in its quantity. It may run on fov two or 

 three weeks without apparent damage; then the milk will fal' otf both in 

 quantity and quality; emaciation sets in; the bowels at the outset may 

 be loose, but soon become obstinately constipated; the pulse gets quick 

 and weak; the cow blows more and more, from increasing weakness; at 

 the left side the heart may be heard to palpitate with quite a perceptible 

 noise, owing to the watery condition of the blood; the debility and ansemia 

 rapidly increase, and death soon follows. 



