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supplied with milk, and the young ones well covered up with 
straw, in order that warmth might partially supply the want of 
food ; for it was evident that if the mother were lost the family 
must follow. The next day I was both pleased and surprised to 
find that great increase of strength was shown by my patient. 
She had partaken of some milk, and also a pint of peas. The 
discoloration was subsiding, and her mammary gland was 
giving a little milk. From this time the secretion daily in- 
creased, and she turned out a most excellent mother; and after, 
in a comparatively short time, rendering her young ones in- 
dependent, she was fed, and arrived at great ‘ bacon weight? 
OPINIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF A COUNTRY 
VETERINARIAN. 
No. 2. 
URETHRAL AND URETAL CALCULI. 
Dear Sirs, — Many months have passed away since the 
first of this series of articles appeared in the pages of The 
Veterinarian” I fear I shall be looked upon as rather a dila- 
tory correspondent, but many things have interfered to prevent 
their earlier continuance. Once more, however, I have ven- 
tured to resume my pen, and it is probable that we shall go 
on more regularly in future. 
On the 28th of July, 1853, I was consulted by a farmer in 
the neighbourhood of this town, Mr. E. of Chatford, on the 
case of a brown cart colt, rising five years old, said to have 
been suffering for several months from some singular disease, 
upon which the farrier, who had hitherto been in the habit of 
attending on the sick animals in Mr. E.’s stock, could evidently 
throw no light. The symptoms, however, were by no means 
obscure, being, in fact, such as ordinarily accompany a case 
of urinary calculus. I found my patient had much difficulty 
in staling, and his urine, which was passed only in small 
quantities, at frequent intervals, was thick, gravelly, and oc- 
casionally tinged with blood ; the act itself being always ac- 
companied with much straining, and other manifestations of 
extreme pain. The pulse and respiration were slightly ac- 
celerated, but his appetite was not at all impaired, although 
he appeared to be somewhat lower in condition than his fellows 
of the same stable. An examination, per rectum , readily de- 
tected a calculus about the size of a large walnut, inclining to 
