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has been turbid and white, with much deposit: I believe that many 
valuable results may be obtained by a careful analysis of urine in 
disease. In rheumatic affections in man, the urine is always found 
different from health ; and by the careful practitioner its character 
in these complaints is daily made an object of study. The most 
interesting results are deduced from this examination, and the 
analysis of the urine is reduced by certain tests and tables to the 
greatest simplicity. Why should not equally beneficial results 
ensue from the analysis of the urine of a horse under certain 
diseases 1 I merely make this observation to direct the attention of 
the profession to it. In this case I did not find that there was such 
a wide difference in the specific gravity from the urine of a horse 
in health as I expected, but visibly there were some great changes 
going on, the urine being turbid and white, with a heavy pre- 
cipitate. Certain products are necessary to be eliminated by the 
kidnies in health ; and if we find any of them in excess or wanting, 
or that the specific gravity of the urine is too low or too high, or 
that the urine is formed in excessive quantities or the reverse, our 
endeavours should be to give such medicinal agents as will bring 
about this healthy action. 
GENITAL AND GENERAL VISCERAL DISEASE 
IN A YOUNG SOW. 
By John Tombs, M.R.C.V.S . , Stratford-on-Avon. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sir, — While attending a patient on the 10th of last 
month, I was asked by the owner to inspect the inside of a young 
sow that was killed the day before, she being in the last stage of 
disease. The short history of the case is, that she had one litter 
of pigs, three in number, and that she went on very well until 
she was put to the boar again, in August last : from that time she 
became sick, and gradually grew worse, when humanity dictated 
the propriety of destroying her. 
Internal appearances.— Small intestines inflamed, and adherent 
to the parietes of the abdomen by congealed gelatinous matter, 
resembling size. Uterus thickened, hard, and its exterior surface 
black : when cut into it was found full of thick matter, of a brown- 
ish pinky colour. Ovaries and Fallopian tubes diseased; bladder 
crammed with thick white pus ; thorax filled with a serous effu- 
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