CEAPTER .V. 
DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 
Many diseases of these organs are quite common, and 
they are of equal importance in so faras the health of a 
horse is concerned with any of his:many afflictions in ohter 
ways. Disease of the urinary organs is very much more 
common where stock do not have free range than where 
they have it. This can be accounted for in only one way, 
and that is through the theory that an animal has a kind 
of instinct or peculiar intelligence, which teaches him how 
to ‘‘doctor’’ himself if he can but get at the various grasses 
and herbs, which contain the medicinal properties he needs 
in effecting a cure or warding off disease. If the reader 
will but study carefully the diseases treated under this 
head he will never be caught dosing a horse for colic or 
pleurisy, when the trouble is in either the kidneys or 
bladder. 
Inflammation of the Kidneys. 
This trouble should always have our close attention from 
the fact that it is very deceptive in its actions; sometimes we 
may think a horse on the high road to recovery with this 
disease and he will lie down and die in thirty minutes 
Cause—The most common cause is from the use of very 
strong medicines when not indicated. Eating faulty food 
