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of disease, as no affection of the kidneys can retain the urine in 
the bladder. The cause must, therefore, be either in the neck of 
the bladder or urethra, and a catheter must be employed, as di- 
rected in the inflammation of the neck of the bladder. 
When the kidneys are inflamed, five or six quarts of blood 
should be taken from the system, and every kind of liquid should 
be avoided, as the secretion would increase the irritation of the 
already too irritated glands. 
Purgatives of five or six drachms of aloes may be employed; 
but calomel and the turpentines must be carefully avoided. A 
clyster of warm water, with an ounce of aloes dissolved in it, 
might perhaps answer the purpose of evacuating the intestines ; 
and gently irritating them, to divert the fluids from the seat of 
disease ; with this intention, it should be repeated every six hours 
until the symptoms abate. At the Veterinary College, a continual 
application of cold water over the region of the kidneys is re- 
commended. Blisters with Spanish flies must be avoided, as they 
particularly affect the kidneys : the purpose of blisters will be, 
however, fully answered by firing over the loins, and, as in other 
visceral inflammations, ligatures may be employed round the legs. 
Exercise is particularly prejudicial, until the vigour of the animal 
is perfectly restored. Stones are sometimes found in the kidneys. 
I think 1 have seen some in Mr. Coleman’s museum, weighing six 
or eight pounds, with accumulated strata super strata of various 
shades. I imagine there can be no remedy for this disease, as it 
cannot be detected until in its advanced stage. Calculi are seldom 
found but in the pelvis of the kidneys, as the horizontal position 
of the animal prevents their gravitating to the bladder, as in the 
the human subject. 
MISCELLANEA. 
A flock of Sheep poisoned by eating the Ranunculus 
Repens. 
The sheep had not been many hours in the field before the 
shepherd observed that several of them seemed suddenly to fall 
down, as if they had been struck by lightning — their eyes rolled 
about in their sockets — their heaving was hurried and laborious, 
and some of them kept turning round and round as if they were 
dizzy, and died with their heads inclined over their left flank. 
