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ALBUMINOUS URINE. 
in directing us to a safe and sound diagnosis; — as, in fact, con- 
nected with other collateral evidence, amounting to a proof that 
the kidneys are the seat of the animal’s disease. 
My Treatment , where symptoms of inflammation have distinctly 
shewn themselves, either in the form of constitutional irritation or 
locally, has, in the first instance, been antiphlogistic. I have both 
bled and purged moderately, and applied upon the loins, in cases 
of much tenderness and stiffness there, mustard plasters, taking 
care to sponge them with warm water before they have taken so 
much effect as to endanger the separation of the hair. So long as 
any febrile action continues to be manifested, the depletive plan, 
with attention to diet and abstinence from exercise, will be found 
most beneficial. Afterwards the best moderator or corrector of the 
augmented or morbid secretion will be found to be opium. I have 
tried the stimulating diuretics, cantharides, and tincture of muriated 
iron ; but I find they do harm. One circumstance should be men- 
tioned here, and that is, the continuance, from habit, of the stretch- 
ing out of the legs in the stall after the complaint is removed, which, 
were it not for the urine, together with the perfect restoration of 
the horse’s action, would induce us to believe the disease remained. 
Mr. Clay worth, V.S., Spilsby, has, in The VETERINARIAN for 
1836, published a case, respecting which he solicits an opinion, 
connected, I now believe, with the subject we are considering. It 
is this : — - 
In October a bay blood mare, then running in the mail, began 
to fall off in condition, in consequence of which she was turned 
into a loose box, where she rapidly regained flesh and spirits. A 
fortnight afterwards she was taken to exercise previously to being 
put. to her former work. She appeared in perfect health, and very 
playful. She had proceeded with her rider about half a mile, when 
she suddenlv stopped, began sweating and trembling without any 
apparent cause, and was with difficulty led home. Mr. C. was 
sent for — found her sweating and trembling, and scarcely able to 
turn in the stall ; the muscles of her back and loins in a state of 
spasm ; tail quite stiff ; kept looking at her flanks, and appeared 
in violent pain; dropped her hind legs in going forwards; but 
her loins did not appear tender when pressed upon. (In the rigid, 
spasmed state in which they were, it is not likely they would.) 
About a pint of fluid was drawn from her bladder with the catheter, 
of the colour and consistence of linseed oil ; after that, the same 
quantity, thicker and of the colour of porter; and a third portion of 
the colour of whey. These urines passed in succession, the cathe- 
ter remaining all the while in the bladder. 
That the urine resembling linseed oil was albuminous, there 
seems little doubt ; that the portion resembling porter was mingled 
