Ai7Q DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 



From this time I may date the recovery of my patient. His appetite, 

 before defective and declining, improved daily ; his desire for water, 

 though still remarkable, was not to be compared to what it had been ; for, 

 from the 5th to the 13th of November he drank, on an average, not more 

 than eighteen gallons per diem ; his coat, before rough and staring, grew 

 fine and sleek ; in fine, he became rapidly convalescent, recovered his con- 

 dition and spirits, and was, in a few weeks, sent home and put to work 

 again. 



After an elapse of three weeks or a month, I met with him again, in 

 harness ; in the course of Avhich interval, he had so much improved in con- 

 dition and appearance altogether, that I could hardly recognize him as the 

 same ill-conditioned, debilitated, hopeless animal I had been treating so 

 little time ago. Mr. Banks told me that he was still " addicted to tippling," 

 but not to any considerable amount. — Vide Lectures^ vol. ii. p. 530. 



One very similar to it is related in ^ The Veterinarian' 

 for 1837, by Mr. Charles, V.S., London, from wliich we 

 extract it here. 



In the beginning of June last, I was sent for to look at a horse that 

 for three or four days, had been suflering from unquenchable thirst, 

 drinking seven or eight pails of water daily, without being Satisfied, and 

 voiding an equal quantity of urine. He was a fine bay carriage horse, 

 and, some weeks before, had two doses of physic, the last of which had 

 little or no effect. I found his pulse rather lower than usual, his mouth 

 cool, appetite diminished, and rather tucked up in the flanks. His hind 

 legs, which previously were a little dropsical, were as fine as possible, much 

 more so than I had ever seen them ; his coat looked healthy, he was in high 

 spirits, but, although he had worked as usual since he drank so much, he 

 had never perspired : he was also rather costive. 



His attendant was doubtful whether he had done right in giving him so 

 much water : I, however, recommended that he should have as much as 

 he would drink. I gave him a fever ball, and ordered him green meat 

 instead of hay. 



The next morning I was up early, that I might see what quantity he 

 would drink. Having called the coachman, we proceeded to the stable, 

 when the horse immediately began pawing, and looking round with the 

 greatest anxiety for his water. We gave him four pailfuls — about ten 

 gallons — which he drank in an incredibly short time, and he seemed to 

 relish the fourth as much as the first. I called again in a couple of hours 

 when he had two more pailfuls. We gave him no more at that time, as 

 he was going out in the carriage. On his return, and in the course of the 

 day, he had four or five pailfuls more, in all about twenty-five or twenty- 



