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odor attend the secretion, and should it be deeply tinted by the blood. 
Death is generally close at hand when the pulse grows quicker but more 
feeble, when pressure elicits no response, when the body is covered with 
perspiration, and when a urinous smell is perceptible on approaching 
the animal. 
The treatment of nephritis consists in applying fresh sheepskins to 
the loins. Should the case be urgent, a quantity of lukewarm made 
mustard may be first rubbed in and the sheepskin placed over it; or 
mustard poultices in any case may be employed and covered over to 
prevent them becoming 
dry, till sheepskins can be 
procured. Injections of 
warm linseed tea should be 
thrown up every hour, as 
these are the nearest ap- 
proach that can be made 
to actual fomentation. 
Two scruples of croton 
farina, mixed with half a 
drachm of belladonna, may 
be given immediately in 
the form of a ball, the bulk 
of which should be made 
up with crushed linseeds 
and treacle. One scru- 
ple of calomel, with one 
drachm of opium, may be sprinkled on the tongue every hour while the 
acute stage continues. A pail of good linseed tea should be kept before 
the horse; but as for more substantial provender, none is requisite dur- 
ing the agony of the disease. 
Should the slightest doubt be entertained concerning the nature of 
the affection, immediately insert the arm up the rectum. This intestine 
is anatomically spoken of as “a floating gut.” It is suspended from 
the spine by mesentery or a loose fold of thin membrane, and, there- 
fore, is easily raised or depressed. It is situated under the kidneys, 
and nothing consequently interposes between the diseased organ and 
the inserted hand but the pliable coats of the bowel and the fatty sub- 
stances which immediately surround the glands. The hand is not con- 
scious of the soft wall of the intestine which covers it. The motion is 
so free, and the fingers are so readily moved, that previous knowledge 
alone assures the operator his arm is within a circumscribed canal, and 
not located in a free space. 
THE TEST FOR NEPARITIS OR INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. 
