PROFUSE STALING (DIURESIS), 



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there is no increased tenderness and heat, there is inflammation of: 

 the kidneys. 



Treatment. — If the pulse is. high, about sixty, take fiye or six 

 quarts of blood, and give a fever ball ; to be repeated in three houjs 

 if not better. Fever ball: 4 drachms Barbadoes aloes, 1 drachm 

 tarter emetic, 2 drachms ginger, calomel about the size of a bean,, 

 molasses sufficient to make into a bait. Counter-irritation^must 



next be excited over the seat of 

 the disease. The loins should 

 be fomented with hot water, or 

 covered with mustard poultice, 

 or, better, heat a peck of salt in 

 an oven, place it in a bag, and 

 put it over the part affected. 

 If the case is severe and pro- 

 tracted, a sharp blister may be . 

 used. No diuretics are to be , 

 given, as they would simply ag- 

 gravate, and make the disease 

 worse. After the bowels are 1 

 open, give aconite, and treat as 

 for fever. After recovery, the 

 horse should be kept very quiet 

 for a month, and if in season, 

 turned out to grass. If in winter, feed with light, mushy diet; exer- 

 cise lightly by leading, if the animal be valuable and it is desired to aid 

 recovery by extra care. 



, Profuse Staling (Diuresis). 



Profuse staling, sometimes called diabetes, consists principally' 

 of simple, increased secretion of urine, without any apparent struct- 

 ural disease of the kidney, or much, alteration of the composition of 

 the urine, so characteristic of this affection in man. 



Causes. — It arises in a great measure from feeding musty or 

 heated hay, exposure to cold, etc. Frequently it occurs as an ac- 

 companiment of acidity of the stomach, or from the improper use of 

 diuretics, as niter, saltpeter, resin,, etc. v which are' frequently given 

 in large quantities for some time by grooms and ignorant persons, 

 not knowing the harm they are doing thereby. It is of these in- 

 gredients also that most of the " condition powders " kept for sale, 

 which are often liberally fed, are composed. -- It is not prudent, or at 

 all necessary, to give such medicine, excepting for specific purposes, 



Fig. 836.<— A Prominent Symptom when the 

 Urinary Organs are Involved. 



