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with when no better remedy than Phosphoric acid ix three times 

 a day can be administered; meanwhile all food that contains an 

 excess of saccharine constituents should be avoided. 



Diabetes insipidus is characterized by an unusual proportion of 

 watery urine; it is affirmed by some that the usual solid elements 

 of the urine are not deficient, but that the watery constituents are 

 so much in excess of the normal that it appears as though the 

 solids were entirely wanting; the late Professor Robertson at- 

 tributes the cause of "insipid urine" to disturbed innervation, 

 while among existing influences, he considers damaged provender 

 responsible for its de\'elopment. The most notable case that has 

 come under our immediate notice and care was that of a horse 

 worked by a market gardener in conveying his produce from house 

 to house during the morning half of the day; by no means heavy 

 work; for a period of three months the animal had been gradually 

 evincing less and less capacity for the performance of his com- 

 paratively light work; he lost flesh and had a precarious appetite, 

 at one time eating voraciously, at another refusing the most dainty 

 diet, it had been observed that he drank very copiously and always 

 appeared to be ready for the pail; the owner's observation had not, 

 however, been attracted to anything peculiar in the performance 

 of urination; the only feature of the case to which our special at- 

 tention was drawn was that presence of an extraordinary large 

 number of nematoid worms, (Ascaris megalocephala) and for the 

 eradication of these, we were consulted; usual remedies were ad- 

 ministered with the result that though a very large number came 

 away whole with the faeces, while others came away in bits, 

 portions of which had been evidently digested by the secretions of 

 the large intestines, the horse was no better; indeed, the emaciation 

 was more pronounced; we therefore urged our client to send the 

 animal into the infirmary which he reluctantly consented to; the 

 horse had only been under our immediate care a few hours before 

 we discovered what was at all events partly the matter with him; 

 the box in which he was placed was absolutely flooded out; we 

 afterwards discovered that his temperature fluctuated to an extra- 

 ordinary degree from day to day, between 99 degrees and 104 

 degrees; this led us to suspect something more than diabetes; we 

 at once commenced administering Phosphoric acid i-\ but as the re- 

 sult was not satisfactory, resorted to Scilla ix; this latter certainly 



