CHAP. I.] DIABETES — A FEBRILE EFFECT. 295 



Tonic Ball No. 2. 



Venice turpentine, 1 scruple, 

 Sulphate of copper, 



of each 1 drachm. 

 Ginger, powdered, 



Mix, with liquorice powder sufficient for one dose, 

 and give twice a day for two or three days. After 

 this, a return to the use of No. 1. would be de- 

 sirable, until the disorder is subdued. Should 

 costiveness ensue, give a clyster, which will also 

 relieve the irritation of the parts ; castor oil, one 

 pint, must also be administered, if the costiveness 

 appears obstinate. 



Above all things, the horse- owner should avoid 

 the use of such excessively ignorant prescriptions 

 as are recommended, in this disorder most particu- 

 larly, by every village quack : they are mostly the 

 horses of hard-working people that are attacked 

 with this disorder, and those people more than any 

 other lie open to this kind of advice. 



Incontinence of urine is of the same nature as the 

 last-mentioned, only differing in the discharge being 

 involuntary, and in the amount, or quantity produced. 

 The disposition to stale frequently, or the urine 

 coming away with scarcely an effort, proves that 

 great irritability of the bladder is the proximate 

 cause, and we may infer that the quantity would be 

 greater if the animal had more in his system. For 

 this feature of the diabetes attacks only old worn- 

 up horses, in whom the quantity of blood is small, 

 and its course slow. Diabetes of the younger 



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