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freely, but diuretics are to be sedulously avoided and 

 warm clothing used to favor sweating and thus relieve tlio 

 kidneys of work. Laxatives and anodynes must be ro 

 peated as may seem necessary and finally a course ol 

 bitter tonics may be allowed. 



AI^BUMINUBIA. BKIGHt'S DISEASE. DESQUAMATIVE NEPHEITIS, 



This consists in inflammation of the kidneys, acute or 

 chronic, with degeneration and shedding of the epithe- 

 lium from the kidney tubes. 



Symptoms. More or less awkwardness of gait behind, 

 and tenderness of the loins, in some cases indisposition to 

 Lie down, thick, gelatinous, ropy urine, with microscopic 

 casts of the kidney tubes, containing much spherical 

 epithehum and granular matter. The urine coagulates in 

 part in whitish flakes when boiled, or under the action of 

 corrosive sublimate, acetate of lead or nitric acid. The 

 general health suffers and the patient dies sooner or later 

 of uraemia with dropsy, or of some other affection which 

 has been aggravated by the impaired vitality and the 

 excess of the elements of urine in the blood. 



Treatment is not always satisfactory, though a certain 

 proportion recover. Avoid exposure to cold, keep in a 

 warm box and warmly clothed. Keep the bowels acting 

 freely by a restricted diet of warm bran mashes, etc., or 

 even by laxatives. Give tonics (phosphate of iron, quiaia, 

 willow bark,) and mineral acids and use mustard apph- 

 cations to the loins. If the kidneys fail to act, do not 

 give diuretics, but use cupping over the part, or hot fo- 

 mentations with water, or better stiU a strong infusion of 

 digitaKs. 



Alljuminous Urine, which is always ropy in horses, is no 

 proof of the existence of Bright's disease, but is an attend- 

 ant on nearly aU extensive inflammations of importani 

 organs, on rheumatism, fevers and certain poisoned con- 

 ditions of the blood. 



