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Toxic mellituria would occur in cattle under the same condi- 

 tions as in the horse. 



Treatment is only hopeful in the sympathetic and toxic forms. 

 These must be treated according to the nature of the primary 

 disease or the poison. To these the general principles of treat- 

 ment as recommended for the horse should be superadded. For 

 essential diabetes an exclusively milk diet and any one of the 

 agents that have given good results in man or horse can be tried, 

 but with an animal in fair condition it will be better as a rule to 

 turn him over to the butcher. 



GLYCOSURIA IN THE DOG. 



More common than in horses and cattle. Causes : pampered in diet, 

 sweets, liver, disease of pituitary body, or mostly of the liver. Removal of 

 pancreas. Brain and nervous lesions and reflex action. Symptoms : pam- 

 pered asthmatic subject, with dysuria and lameness, dense saccharine urine, 

 bulimia, loss of weight, corneal ulcers, cataracts, palsy, coma. Duration : 

 4 to 8 months, sugar may disappear with complete liver degeneration. Diag- 

 nosis : by pampered condition, asthma, thirst, diuresis, later by loss of 

 weight, troubles of vision, saccharine urine. Lesions : usually hypertro- 

 phied, fatty or caseated liver, thickened capsule, disease of thyroid, heart 

 and eye. Treatment,: skim or butter milk as sole diet, restricted diet of 

 lean meat clear of fat, warmth, dryness, pure air, sunshine, gentle exercise 

 only, cholagogues, sodium sulphate, or chloride, or carbonate, or salicylate, 

 salol, nitro-muriatic acid, antithermics, ergot, codeine, bitters, mineral 

 acids, derivatives. 



Among domestic animals the dog has furnished the greatest 

 number of cases, yet even in this animal the disease appears to be 

 far from common. 



Causes. The relative frequency of diabetes in the dog is prob- 

 ably dependent on his life in human dwellings and on gourman- 

 dizing on dishes prepared for man. Friedberger and Frohner 

 have produced the disease artificially by feeding a great quantity 

 of sugar and W. Williams has met the disease in dogs fed exclu- 

 sively and generously on liver. Thiernesse records one case 

 complicated by atrophy and steatosis of the pituitary body, but 

 in all other instances the appreciable lesions were confined to the 

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