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VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Mr. Sparrow saw a case which was accompanied by exces- 
sive staling of high-coloured urine : — how would diuretics suit 
here ? 
Mr. Si/monds. — -Have the early symptoms occasionally been 
those of spasmodic colic? or have they supervened in the course 
of the disease? 
Mr. Field. — There is often a great deal of gastric irritation. 
Mr. Richmond. — May not the disease arise from obstructed 
perspiration ? 
Mr. Field. — There is always a want of cutaneous perspiration. 
Mr. Cheetham. — The disease seems to arise from or to be 
connected with every other, colic, inflammation of the lungs, 
inflammation of the feet. In every case that he has seen, there 
has been variation in the occasional and almost in the primary 
symptoms. Colic has frequently been present in the course of 
the disease, but he did not have recourse to physic, for all that. 
The only admissible medicines are, tincture of opium, the spirit 
of nitrous ether, carbonate of ammonia, and nitre. The two 
first of these, while they relieve the irritation of the disease, will 
relieve the colic too. The disease has found its way into the 
extensive brewery of which he has the medical care. Some cases 
were lost at first ; but he has now adopted the full stimulating 
plan, and he loses no more : he has given as much as half a 
pound each of the nitrous ether and carbonate of ammonia in the 
space of four-and-twenty hours. When effusion is once pro- 
duced, the most important object is accomplished, and the medi- 
cal attendant has little to do, except to keep up the strength of 
his patient. He has occasionally given as much as half a gallon 
of porter to a patient in the course of the day. He does not now 
bleed. He did so in one case ; the pulse was full and strong — the 
blood wasbuffy — there was every thing to justify the bleeding; 
but the horse fell, and he rose no more. The grand thing is to 
support the strength of the animal. This is a fever of a peculiar 
nature : — the skin is highly diseased — the mucous membranes of 
every kind are frequently diseased, and the intestinal canal does 
not escape. As soon as effusion takes place, nature tells us that 
she has set up her own method of cure. In some cases he thinks 
bad effects have been produced even by rowels and setons. The 
cause of the disease is some peculiar state of the atmosphere, of 
what kind he knows not. If the animals have been accustomed 
to an impure atmosphere, or in other respects have been mis- 
managed, they will be more susceptible of the disease, and it will 
appear in an aggravated form. His stables are excellently ven- 
tilated, and the utmost attention is paid to cleanliness ; but he 
one day perceived an . unusual fog in them — he could not get rid 
