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coloring matter -whicli is called hematosin escapes and is 

 passed with the urine. 



Cause. — Obscure, but assigned to local causes as the 

 peculiar propertiss of certain herbs or grasses which the 

 cow feeds upon. My opinion, however, is that the cause 

 will be found to be local congestion — the red coloring mat- 

 ter is but the product — red colored serum. 



Symiotoms. — Diarrhoea lasting for a day or two, fol- 

 lowed by constipation, urine of a brown color changing 

 to a deep red, and in the last and fatal stages the urine is 

 black, resembling porter. 



Post Mortem — Appearances confirm my opinion that 

 it is local congestion that gives rise to red water. The 

 liver and kidney being chiefly implicated. 



Treatment. — Give a strong dose of epsom and common 

 table salt, one pound each, and half an ounce of ginger; 

 dissolved in four bottles of water and sweetened with mo- 

 lasses. Give mashes pretty well wet and in a day or two 

 follow by giving powdered ginger root, half an ounce; 

 powdered gentian root, half an ounce ; powdered fenu- 

 greec, half an ounce ; mix and make one dose, give one 

 dose twice in the day, till sufficient improvement takes 

 place to warrant no further medicine to be given. To 

 hasten recovery, give good and generous feeding, which 

 will also assist in making blood for that which has been 

 lost. 



Reticulem. — The second stomach so called from ret 

 or net like, and is sometimes called the honeycomb. 



Retroflexion of the Womb.— Retroflexion is said 

 to be present when the canal is bent on itself. 



Retroversion of the Womb.— This term is ap- 

 plied when the canal is straight. 



