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Diseases of the Urinary Organs. 



copious, is loaded with albumen, and resembles mucilage. 

 Acute cases are. usually the result of injury, as sprains of 

 the back, and injudicious use of cantharides, when the 

 animal stands with his back arched and the feet drawn 



Acute Albuminuria. 



together. The pulse and respiration are then much dis- 

 turbed, surface heat unequal, constipation, &c. A chronic 

 form is induced by defective feeding, when the animal 

 stands with the back arched downwards and the legs 



Chronic Albuminuria. 



stretched before and behind. Death arises from disease 

 of the kidneys. 



Treatment. In the acute form aperients, as No. 3, with 

 enemas. Remove the urine by means of the catheter at 

 intervals. Poultices to surfaces blistered with cantharides 



