abscesses form open them at the proper tune. When recovery- 

 takes place give an ounce of saltpetre once a week, for a 

 fortnight, in a pail of water. 



PROFUSE STALKING (POLYURIA). 



Cause. — This can scarcely be called a disease, but a 

 temporary annoyance to the horse and his owner ; although, 

 if neglected, it may lead to fatal consequences. The exciting 

 and producing causes are many. Excessive doses (especially 

 in their pure state) of turpentine, saltpetre, sweet spirits of 

 nitre, and other drugs given by stablemen and others, most 

 frequently irritate the bladder, and produce this excessive 

 flow of urine. In very many other instances it is connected 

 with indigestion, when it depends on an impoverished state 

 of the blood. Sometimes, in hot weather, when animals are 

 hard worked and drink inordinate quantities of water, this 

 state of things is observed. Profuse staking has often fol- 

 lowed the use of musty hay or oats, or grain that has been 

 kiln dried. 



Faulty feeding of all kinds aids in its development, as 

 well as debilitating diseases, such as influenza and strangles, 

 or by suppression of the secretions from exposure to cold, or 

 from drinking of water very freely when heated or exhausted. 



Symptoms. — The most prominent are excessive and 

 insatiable thirst — eight and ten pails a day are not un- 

 common — while the quantity passed off" by the kidneys 

 exceeds what has been consumed. The urine is very abun- 

 dant, clear, colorless, free of sweetness, and so deficient in 

 solid matter that its specific gravity little exceeds that of 

 distilled water. If these symptoms are neglected and allowed 

 to continue the creature rapidly falls off"in condition, his coat 

 becomes rough and staring; his appetite, at first voracious, 

 suddenly fails ; the blood becomes deteriorated, and if un- 

 checked may end in nephritis or glanders. 



Treatment. — Entire change of food is necessary, such 

 as boiled barley, scalded oats, green food, apples and carrots. 



