212 THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OP 



tinged with yellow ; the beast feeds nearly as well as before, 

 but ruminates rather more lazily. In a few days a natural 

 diarrhoea comes on, and the animal is well at once ; or a pur- 

 gative drench is administered and a cure is presently effected. 

 This occurs frequently in cows and calves of weak constitution. 



" At other times there is manifest indisposition ; the animal 

 is dull, heavy, languid — the ears droop, the back is bowed, she 

 separates from the herd, she refuses her food, she ceases to ru- 

 minate. Presently she gets better ; she reijoins her compan- 

 ions ; but this is only for a little while. The urine, which at 

 first was brown, with a tinge of yellow, has now red mingled 

 with brown, or it is of the color of porter. It is increased in 

 quantity ; it is discharged sometimes with ease, at other times 

 with considerable straining — in little jets, and with additional 

 bowing of the back. The milk diminishes ; it acquires a slight 

 tinge of yellow or brown, the taste becomes unple asant, it spoils 

 all that it is mingled with. The pulse is accelerated ; it reaches 

 to 60 or 70. If blood is drawn, the serum which separates 

 from it is brown. The skin is yellow, but of a darker yellow 

 than in jaundice, it has a tinge of brown. The conjunctiva is 

 also yellow, inclining to brown. The urine becomes of a 

 darker hue, it is almost black. The animal usually shrinks 

 when the loins are pressed upon ; occasionally there is much 

 tenderness, but oftener the beast scarcely shrinks more than he 

 is accustomed to do when laboring under almost every disease. 

 The belly is not so much tucked up as drawn together at the 

 sides. There is considerable loss of condition ; the legs and 

 ears get cold ; the animal is less inclined to move ; there is ev- 

 ident general debility. In every stage there is costiveness, 

 arid that exceedingly difficult to overcome, but on close inquiry, 

 it is ascertained that there was diarrhoea at the beginning, and 

 which was violent and fetid, and which suddenly stopped." 



Testimony of this description emanating from reliable au- 

 thority, is entitled to our consideration, and it should teach us 

 to seek for the cause of discolored urine beyond the region of 

 the kidneys, except in those cases which are evidently the re- 



