CHAPTER XVII 
MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 
THERE is no single satisfactory method of classifying 
diseases. In this book that classification has been 
adopted that promises to be of most service to the 
farmer and stockman. There still remain, however, a 
number of important diseases that do not fall readily 
under any of the preceding heads, and these are now 
placed together here. 
AZOTURIA 
There seems to be no established common name for 
this disease of horses, although the term “bloody water” 
is sometimes applied. Azoturia is a form of poisoning 
resulting from high feeding and lack of exercise. It 
always occurs in horses that are in good flesh or fat, 
when they are exercised after standing in the stable for 
one or more days. The blood seems to be loaded with 
nitrogenous waste material which the excretory organs 
are unable to throw off when the horse is exercised, and 
a peculiar form of paralysis and poisoning results. 
A horse in good flesh, after standing in the stable for 
a day or more, is taken out and seems to be in excellent 
spirits; but after going a short distance, varying from 
a few rods to a mile or more, he goes lame or stiff in the 
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