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must be subdued or moderated ; and if present in the kidney, 

 counter-irritation upon the loins may be employed ; taking 

 care not to employ cantharides^ or any other diuretic stimu- 

 lant. When no inflammation is present, and none appre- 

 hended^ but the case assumes what is called the passive form 

 of hemorrhage, we may try the effect of internal styptic and 

 sedative medicines, and the best appear to be those used in 

 human medicine under similar circumstances — oil of turpen- 

 tine and opium. 



Mr. Brown, V.S., Melton Mowbray, has been very successful 

 in the employment of the acetate of lead, in combination with 

 opium and a vegetable tonic, formed into a mass with balsam 

 of copaiba and syrup. His excellent practical paper on this 

 infrequent occurrence in the common routine of practice, con- 

 tained in 'The Veterinarian^ for 1854 (vol. xxvii. p. 13), 

 is well deserving of attentive perusal. 



The late John Field has left us some interesting observa- 

 tions on this subject. A horse was brought to him, Jan. 1818, 

 that had come off a job for " profuse staling of blood ;" he 

 lived three days, continuing to grow worse, and then died, 

 " The peritoneal coat and cortical substance of the kidney 

 were entirely destroyed ; the ureters filled with blood ; the 

 bladder contained a pint of blood, mixed with urine ; the 

 liver was pale ; the chest healthy. Above a pint of blood 

 was found within the pericardium. '^ 



'^ Another horse died, 10th Feb. 1818, of similar disease. 

 The ureter and kidney of the near side were much enlarged ; 

 the former and pelvis of the latter were filled with blood, 

 arising from destruction of the texture of the papillary sub- 

 stance ; the off kidney was not so much enlarged ; its ureter 

 was likewise filled with blood, and there was a very small 

 abscess within its substance.^ 



Nov. 1823. A bay gelding admitted for staling of blood 

 in such quantity as almost to exhaust him. The lips and 

 conjunctive^ quite pale; pulse weak and frequent; fainted 

 twice during the day ; died at 12 o'clock the same night. 

 The bladder proved full of blood. Ulcerated tubuli uriniferi, 

 and pelvis of the left kidney ; of tlic right the cortical part 



