J 04 The Farmer'' s Veterinary Adviser. 



bay and grain with no suspicion of newness or mustiness 

 Give a decoction of flaxseed freely with the water drunk, 

 with phosphate of iron 2 drachms, Pei-uvian bark 4 

 drachms and iodide of potassium 2 drachms daily. Ore 

 osote may often be added with advantage. 



BLOODY URINE. H^MATUEIA. 



This occurs after sprains of the loins or blows on this 

 region, with stone in the kidneys, urinary passages or blad- 

 der, cancer, tubercle or even abscess of the kidney, etc., or 

 lastly some poisoned condition of the blood, as in malig- 

 nant authrax. Acrid diuretic pJauts, cantharides, May- 

 bugs, etc., are occasional causes. When bleeding occurs 

 from local irritation or in a tolerably healthy state of the 

 blood it is partly at least in the form of clots and fibrinous 

 casts of the uriniferous tubes, about one-hundreth inch in 

 diameter, and f^ntangling blood-globules. If from poi- 

 soned and disintegr ailing blood, there is a diffuse colora- 

 tion with hsematine, Avilh perhaps fragments of blood- 

 globules, but rarely perfect oi.js, clots or casts, and a sim- 

 ilar oozing of blood is liable to take place at other parts 

 .f the body. The blood-coloring matter is easily distin- 

 guished from bile by chemical tests. It is less easily dis- 

 tinguished from the brownish-red albuminoids which es- 

 cape by the kidneys in Azotaemia. Beside the passage of 

 blood there may be the general signs of urinary disorder, 

 but these are not constant. When gravel coexists gritty 

 masses pass with the urine or collect on the hair of the 

 piepuce. 



Treatment. Remove the causes, give comfortable, dry 

 Iwellings, sound food, mucilaginous drinks (linseed tea, 

 nallow, gums, elm. etc.,) and acid astringents (tincture oi 

 chloride of iron, sugar of lead, vinegar, buttermilk and oau 

 bark). In profuse discharge cold water may be appHed tc 

 the loins, while in inflammatory cases a sheep-skin or 

 poultice may be first used and followed by a mustard 

 plasier. (See Azo'J'vEmu and Eed-wateb). 



