204 THE FARM DOCTOR. 



Treatment is very successful in the early stages. .StO|) the 

 use of faulty food and drugs, and give dry wholesome hay and 

 grain with no suspicion of newness or mustiness. Give a decoc- 

 tion of flaxseed freely with the water drunk, with phosphate of 

 iron 2 drachms, Peruvian bark 4 drachms, and iodide of potas- 

 sium 2 drachms daily. Creosote may often be added with 

 advantage. 



BLOODY URINE. H^EMATURIA. 



This occurs after sprains of the loins or blows on this region, 

 with stone in tlie kidneys, urinary passages or bladder, cancer, 

 tubercle, or even abscess of the kidney, etc., or lastly, some 

 poisoned condition of the blood, as in malignant anthrax. 

 Acrid diuretic plants, cantharides, May-bugs, etc., are occasional 

 causes. When bleeding occurs from local irritation or in a 

 tolerably healthy state of the blood, it is partly at least in the 

 form of clots and fibrinous casts of the uriniferous tubes, about 

 one-hundredth inch in diameter, and entangling blood-globules. 

 If from poisoned and disintegrating blood, there is a diffuse 

 coloration with haematine, with perhaps fragments of blood- 

 globules, but rarely perfect ones, clots or casts, and a similar 

 oozing of the blood is liable to take place at other parts of the 

 body. The blood-colouring matter is easily distinguished from 

 bile by chemical tests. It is less easily distinguished from the 

 brownish-red albuminoids which escape by the kidneys in 

 Azotaemia. Beside the passage of blood there may be the 

 general signs of urinary disorder, but these are not constant 

 When gravel coexists, gritty masses pass with the urine or 

 colled on the hair of the prepuce. 



Treatment. — Remove the causes, give comfortable, dry dwell- 

 ings, sound food, mucilaginous drinks (linseed tea, mallow, gums, 

 elm, etc.), and acid astringents (tincture of chloride of iron, 

 sugar of lead, vinegar, buttermilk and oak bark). In proiuse 

 discharge cold water may be applied to the loins, wlule in 



