ON NEPHRITIS. 
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We have just received the information that the Council have 
appointed a “ Temporary General Board of Examiners,” to consist 
of twelve members, seven of whom are to be veterinary surgeons, 
and the remaining five human surgeons ; and that the said Board are 
to be in commission from the present period until October next. 
Edit. 
ON NEPHRITIS. 
By Mr. J. Relph, Sebergham, Cumberland. 
It seems to me that few local inflammations present themselves 
in the horse under more varied appearances than nephritis; 
and, without questioning the accuracy of the general symptoms 
recorded by modern writers, perhaps some good may result from 
drawing the attention of practitioners to the more general conco- 
mitants, especially as, in the first Number of the present volume of 
The Veterinarian, a respectable writer asserts that symptoms 
simulating those of colic rarely exist. 
In most of the cases of inflammation of the kidneys that have 
occurred in my practice, symptoms of abdominal pain were shewn 
by pawing the litter, frequently lying down, stretching themselves 
out, and rising again. Several late writers have noticed the same. 
I have seen one case accompanied with severe lameness in the 
hinder fetlock joint, like that narrated by Herr Korber : nor are 
paralytic symptoms unusual. The legs are extremely fine ; there 
is often an aversion to drink, or to eat mashes, while hay or straw 
is eagerly devoured in the intermissions . The urine, at first high 
coloured or bloody, is frequently passed in small quantities, and then 
becomes loaded with mucus*, albumen, or gelatine, and nearly 
suppressed, and the blood presenting, after detraction, a very un- 
usual quantity of buff. 
Can the albuminous appearance of the urine, or the excess of 
buff in the blood, be in any way connected with the non-elimina- 
tion of nitrogen through the suspension of the functions of the 
kidneys ! 
The manner in which the functions of an organ are performed is 
mostly indicative of the state of that organ; and although we 
have diabetes in the horse and hematuria in horses and cattle pri- 
* I have tried tests, but without a satisfactory result. 
