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HiEMATURIA. 
the disease, the pulse was feeble and wanted tone, and the 
visible mucous membranes were pallid; but as the disease 
progressed, the urine became more scanty, and the flow of 
blood more copious, the mucous membranes blanched, and 
the pulse so small and indistinct that it was not perceptible 
by the finger. 
The post-mortem examination revealed the nature of the 
disease, proving it to be seated in the kidneys. These glands 
appeared to have been for a long time affected with a sub- 
acute inflammatory action, which had led to such enlargement 
and induration, as to render the kidneys more like two large 
scirrhosities than as having any resemblance of their true or 
original structure. 
My attention was directed to the second case on the 5th 
day of August, 1 838. The patient was a young cart-mare, 
full of flesh, which had been at gentle work, living upon na- 
ture's simple fare in the field during the summer months. This 
mare had sustained no known or apparent injury in the lumbar 
region, neither did her general health appear to be much 
impaired by the functional disturbance in her urinary organs. 
In this case the urine was scanty, voided in small quantities, 
and contained a considerable proportion of clotted blood, 
which could be best seen on the grass or litter, after the urine 
had separated from it. The animal was taken into the stable, 
and had her food changed to hay and mashes. Some plumbi 
acetas, in combination with opium and vegetable tonic, were 
formed into a mass, with bals. copaibae and theriaca, and 
administered daily, until the kidneys had become restored to 
their healthy action and function ; which desirable result was 
attained in the short space of three days. The mare 
was kept by her then owner for several years after this 
attack, and during that period she had no return of the 
complaint. 
The third case of this disease occurred in my practice on 
the 31st of May, 1853. The subject of its attack is a very 
old horse which w r as kept formerly for several seasons as a 
hunter, but, owing to his legs not being able to stand that 
distressing w r ork, he was sent into the cart-horse stable, where 
he has remained for the last ten or twelve years, living well 
and working hard, both on the farm and the roads. He had 
been a remarkably healthy animal previous to the attack of 
haematuria, never having been off work, either from accidental 
injuries, or any other ailment, during the w'hole period of his 
having been used for agricultural purposes. The medicines 
which were given in this case were similar to those that were 
administered in the second, and w ere prescribed w r ith the same 
