274 SABULOUS DEPOSIT IN THE BLADDER OF A HORSE. 
been the case in former years, arising from the almost total 
loss of the hay and turnip crops. 
Again our attention has been called to attacks of Splenic 
Apoplexy being associated with the use of “compound cattle- 
cake,” but we have been unable to satisfy ourselves that this 
has been anything more than an effect of the injudicious use 
of it. Dr. Yoclker and other chemists have, we are informed, 
been unable to detect any positively injurious material in the 
compound alluded to. 
SCAB IN SHEEP. 
Since the commencement of the year scab would seem to 
have been steadily on the increase in Great Britain, and also 
in North Germany in particular. A few infected animals 
have been detected in imported cargoes, which have been 
dealt with in manner to prevent any mischief resulting 
therefrom. No less than thirty-eight counties are known to 
be seat of scab, while the infected flocks number upwards of 
1500. 
SABULOUS DEPOSIT IN BLADDER OF A HORSE. 
We are indebted to Mr. J. Reynolds, of Eye, for an in- 
teresting and very remarkable specimen of sabulous deposit 
in the bladder of a horse, weighing no less than 36 lbs. 
The organ, as can be easily understood, was much increased 
in size and its coats thickend. The ureters, the neck of the 
bladder, as well as the membranous part of the urethra and 
openings of the vesiculse seminales,were greatly dilated, having 
evidently acted as incomplete receptacles for the urine. The 
animal was a cart-horse, nineteen years old, and although long 
affected with incontinence of urine and consequent emacia- 
tion, it does not appear that any medical attention was given 
to his case until a short time before death. The deposit 
differed in no respect from that observed in allied cases, being 
composed of crystals of carbonate of lime, closely compressed 
together. No lime salt is more easily dissolved than the car- 
bonate, and had proper attention been given to this case, and 
injections of dilute mineral acid used at the commencement, 
there is no reason why a complete cure might not have been 
effected. Unfortunately, many owners of horses pay little 
attention to a “ thick state of the urine but it should be 
remembered that this is one of the early and more prominent 
symptoms of sabulous deposit in the bladder of the horse. 
