296 BLOODY URINE. [BOOK II. 



animals sometimes terminates in this mode of pro- 

 ducing water by driblets and in small quantities, 

 but to which the moderns have given a distinct 

 term, though both are the same disease ; a small 

 degree of inflammation prevails when the animal is 

 greatly affected with incontinance . See page 292. 



The treatment should be the same, nearly, as 

 directed at page 294. Give occasionally the tonic 

 hall, No. 2, page 201, for two or three days. A 

 run at grass for a week, and generous feeding after- 

 wards, generally complete the cure, no other ob- 

 stacles intervening. 



BLOODY URINE, 



As already said, is but one feature among many 

 other correspondent symptoms of inflamed kidneys ; 

 and the only reason why we deem it worthy of 

 separate notice is, that real " inflammation of the 

 kidneys" is not always present when bloody urine 

 appears, especially when no other symptom thereof 

 accompanies this single demonstration of disorder. 

 Its causes may be traced to excessive labour, as 

 drawing in a cart or waggon, whilst a slight cold of 

 the kidneys may obstruct their proper action : the 

 office of separating the blood from the water is in 

 this event performed with much difficulty, and of 

 course imperfectly ; and small portions of the former, 

 instead of ascending towards the heart, descend to 

 the bladder with the urine, while the animal is 

 straining every nerve and vein. 



