118 DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 



ease, and it is remarkable that there are districts 

 where the disease prevails among horses. There 

 are others where it prevails among cattle of all 

 kinds, male and female, and there are still others 

 when it affects only cows after parturition. 

 (Gam gee.) 



Symptoms : There is a copious discharge of dark 

 or red-colored urine and it does not separate into 

 clots on the floor, the blood having been broken up 

 in the system before being passed. The animal 

 moves stiff and is weak on its hind legs. The pulse 

 is fast, from seventy to eighty, and there is a loss of 

 appetite. As the disease advances the animal be- 

 comes weaker, the breathing difficult, and with a 

 few convulsive struggles it dies. 



Treatment consists of giving the horse one ounce 

 aloes and one ounce ginger dissolved in hot water. 

 Follow this by giving one ounce tincture of chloride 

 of iron, one ounce tincture of ginger, and one ounce 

 tincture of gentian at a dose three times a day in a 

 half pint of water. Boiled flaxseed mixed with 

 bran is useful if the animmi will take it. Give plen- 

 ty of cold water, and allow the animal anything it 

 will eat. The same treatment is good for cattle; 

 but give Epsom salts instead of aloes to cattle and 

 sheep — one and one-half pounds for cattle and 

 one-quarter pound for sheep at a dose. 



Polyuria (Diuresis Polyuria Diabetes Insipi- 

 dus). — This disease is characterized by frequent 

 and abundant discharge of urine. The cause of this 

 disease is not well understood, but it usually fol- 

 lows wet seasons, when the hay, straw and oats 



