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as to endanger the separation of the hair. So long as any 

 febrile action continues to be manifested, the depletive plan, 

 with attention to diet and abstinence from exercise, Avill be 

 found most beneficial. Afterwards, the best moderator or 

 corrector of the argnmented or morbid secretion will be 

 found to be opium, I have tried the stimulating diuretics, 

 cantharides and tincture of muriatcd iron ; but I find they 

 do harm. One circumstance should be mentioned here, and 

 that is^ the continuance, from habit, of the stretching out of 

 the legs in the stall after the complaint is removed, which, 

 were it not for the return of healthy urine, together with the 

 perfect restoration of the horse's action, would induce us to 

 believe the disease remained. 



Mr. Clay worth, V.S., Spilsby, transmitted to 'The Veteri- 

 narian,^ for 1836, a case for an opinion, connected, I now 

 believe, with the subject we are considering. It is this : — 



In October, a bay blood mare, then running in the mail, 

 began to fall off in condition, in consequence of which she 

 was turned into a loose box, where she rapidly regained flesh 

 and spirits. A fortnight afterwards she was taken to exer- 

 cise previously to being put to her former work. She ap- 

 peared in perfect health, and very playful. She had pro- 

 ceeded with her rider about half a mile, when she suddenly 

 stopped, began sweating and trembling without any apparent 

 cause, and was with difficulty led home. Mr. Clay worth was 

 sent for — found her sweating and trembling, and scarcely 

 able to turn in the stall ; the muscles of her back and loins 

 in a state of spasm; tail quite stiff; kept looking at her 

 flanks, and appeared in violent pain ; dropped her hind legs 

 in going forwards; but her loins did not appear tender when 

 pressed upon. (In the rigid spasmed state in which they 

 were, it is not likely they would.) About a pint of fluid 

 was drawn from her bladder with the catheter, of the colour 

 and consistence of Unseed oil; after that, the same quantity, 

 thicker and of the colour ot porter ; and a third poi'tion of 

 the colour of whey. These urines passed in succession, the 

 catheter remaining all the while in the bladder. 



That the urine resembling linseed oil was albuminous, 



