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attacked during the spring or summer season, a very 

 desirable change would be from the stable to the grass- 

 field; or, when this cannot conveniently be done, soiling, 

 i. e.j feeding on green meat, sucb as vetches or lucern, or, 

 early in the season, rye-grass, may be practised with ad- 

 vantage. Should the water appear to be in fault, and there 

 be no means, or very great difficulty of obtaining any other 

 kind, we may put a piece of chalk into the pail he drinks 

 out of, with a view of neutralizing or rendering less harmful 

 the noxious impregnation. 



The medicines found most serviceable in this disorder 

 are astringents and tonics. A ball I am fond of myself is 

 composed of sesqui- carbonate of iron and prepared chalk, of 

 each half an ounce, made up with syrup, and given once a 

 day. Mr. Castley appears to have derived benefit from galls. 

 Mr. Stewart speaks in laudatory terms of opium. He gives 

 daily a ball consisting of three drachms of opium, and of 

 catechu, gentian, and ginger, two drachms of each, made up 

 ^vith a little tar. The late Mr. Bird (V.S. 8tb Hussars) 

 informed me he had seen the Ura Ursi (in sij doses) " act 

 like a charm " in arresting and removing inordinate 

 discharges of urine. He had been giving for the complaint 

 catechu and opium, and had, by way of experiment, added 

 the Ura Ursi to the balls. 



Should any fever exist, such medicines, of course, become 

 inadmissible. In their place, moderate bloodletting and 

 purging ought to be practised. In case the urinary disorder 

 outlive the febrile one — which it will not often be found to 

 do — recurrence may then be had to the opiate and astringent 

 remedies, 



ALBUMINOUS URINE. 



To this subject my attention was first drawn in December, 

 1838. An officer's charger, six years old, thoroughbred, 

 who, before he came into the possession of his present owner, 

 had been much used, and had obtained a good character as 

 a hunter, exhibited some ratiier strange symptoms, respecting 

 which my first impression was that he might have sprained 



