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iron which exists only in the red corpuscles of healthy 

 blood. The disease is a blood disorder, and due to 

 the food upon which the animal is feeding. 



Symptoms. — At the commencement, this complaint 

 is manifested by frequent, but unavailing attempts to 

 emit urine ; but when the disease has acquired a more 

 advanced condition, the discharge is in large quanti- 

 ties. When the disease is neglected, the urine 

 assumes a darker hue, and in time looks like foul 

 coffee, and now he loses strength rapidly, and sinks 

 into a lethargic condition ; and unless speedy remedies 

 are had recourse to, the animal will seldom exist 

 under the complaint for more than ten or twelve days. 

 Great pain is felt in the urinary passage, and the 

 animal generally retires from the rest of the herd, and 

 extends its tail, raising up its back in an arcuated form. 



In the earliest stages, sunk eyes, restlessness, 

 and want of appetite, with hot and dry nose, and a 

 staring coat are the ordinary concomitants of this 

 disease. 



Red water is usually accompanied with considerable 

 costiveness ; and although this may not be the case 

 at first, it generally shows itself in the more advanced 

 stages of the complaint. Dry feeding is certain to 

 induce costiveness in this malady, and more especially 

 if strong estringents are given ; and in this case such 

 a degree of constipation may be induced, that the 

 animal will die in consequence, as no medicine will 

 give relief So prone to costiveness are animals 

 labouring under this complaint, that it will take place 

 even when feeding on grass. Relief may sometimes 

 be given by drawing off the dung with the hand. 

 This complaint differs in a material degree from in- 

 flammation of the kidneys, as the urine is not voided 

 in small quantities, as in that disorder. 



