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found to be especially useful in disorders of this cliaracter. 

 Iodide of potassium also has been found beneficial. Also 

 alkalies are valuable to counteract acidity. In arthritic 

 complications fomentations are considered but loss of time. 

 Stimulants are beneficial, especially vesicants, for it is 

 supposed that they draw off the poison from the blood, 

 and lessen its tendency to affect the heart. The general 

 fever must be combated by doses of tincture of aconite. 

 Williams recommends that the bedding be frequently 

 changed to prevent bed-sores, and the inflamed joints 

 wrapped in flannel to prevent bruising. He considers 

 also that if suppuration sets in the animal should be 

 destroyed, as chances of recovery are very slight. Kheu- 

 matism tends to assume the chronic form, and may cause 

 death by cardiac complication, or by continuous irritative 

 fever. The flesh, being full of impurities, is unfit for food. 

 The joints, besides the lesions already noticed, frequently 

 exhibit false anchylosis and ulceration of cartilages. 



H^MO-ALBUMINUEIA MuiR-ILL, ReDWATEE, BlACKWATER 



is a disease which is very prevalent in some parts of the 

 country and especially affects cows (just before or) after 

 calving, generally on about the fourteenth day. It com- 

 mences with general febrile symptoms and diarrhoea. Then 

 the animal stands with arched back, obstinate torpidity of the 

 bowels sets in, and about the same time urine of a high 

 colour in small quantities is expelled with some force 

 by straining; also tenderness over the loins is present. 

 The respirations are laboured, pulse very quick, small, and 

 dicrotous, and the animal very dull and giving no milk, 

 or only a little of a yellowish colour and unpleasant odour. 

 The visible mucous membranes are of a yellow colour. 

 The discoloration of the urine is very characteristic, and 

 undergoes increase in intensity as the disorder progresses. 

 Youatt mentions two forms of the disorder, acute and 

 chronic. The former, manifested by the symptoms above 

 indicated, runs its course in a few days ; the latter is 

 more prevalent, and may be slight, and terminated by a 

 spontaneous diarrhoea, or else may extend over a con- 

 siderable time. All the above-mentioned symptoms ex- 



