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weather, of Coldbeck, to attend a cow of his that had, pre- 
viously to their starting for me, quitted the placenta, and 
showed great uneasiness. In this case, on making an explo- 
ration, I again found the foetus presenting in a false position ; 
but, after a little manual dexterity, I was enabled to remove 
a dead calf, of unusually large size. This case needed little 
more than common attendance, and is doing well. 
HiEMATURIA. 
By Samuel Brown, M.R.C.Y.S., Melton Mowbray. 
Sir, — Perhaps haematuria may be regarded as a disease of 
unusual occurrence in the horse, but, as in the course of our 
experience, we occasionally meet with cases of this disease in 
that animal, I conceive that a few cursory remarks on the 
nature and treatment of three cases which have been intrusted 
to my care, during the period of the last eighteen years, may 
be found worthy of a small space in your truly valuable 
Journal. 
I have but a faint recollection of the first case, which oc- 
curred in the month of February, 1835. The patient was an 
old horse, and had been a valuable hunter ; but at the time 
of his attack with the above disease, he was used for agricul- 
tural purposes. The history of the case was unsatisfactory, 
and gave little or no clue to any apparent injury of the kidneys, 
either from the horse having been drawn in cart-shafts with 
heavy loads, or from his having been cast in or out of the 
stable, or, in fact, from any accident w hich might have befallen 
him during his usual w 7 ork. The patient became worse under 
the treatment which l adopted, and the steward (Mr. Lancas- 
ter), proposed to try the effect of a celebrated Yorkshire 
remedy for the “ redwater” in neat cattle ; and, through my 
having no hope of the recovery of the animal, I readily con- 
sented to his proposition. This remedy consisted of one 
pound of oatmeal with an equal quantity of common salt, 
mixed together, and then tied up in a piece of linen cloth, 
and put into the fire and burnt until the whole had become 
a red-hot cinder ; when, it was taken out of the fire, powdered, 
and dissolved in a quart of warm water, in order to form the 
drink, which was immediately given to the horse. These 
medicinal agents had no beneficial effect. The urine became 
more scanty, and the flow of blood more copious and florid, 
until death closed life’s journey. At the commencement of 
