ALBUMINOUS URINE. 
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the company as the stork did the fox, presenting an entertainment 
to him in a deep pitcher, out of which no creature could feed but a 
long-billed fowl. 
The modern languages are always useful, and afford many sources 
of information that would be otherwise unknown. We hope that 
the olive of peace may long flourish ; but should it be succeeded 
by the laurel, a knowledge of the continental languages becomes 
almost indispensable to one who is engaged on foreign service. 
In conclusion, I w T ould exhort you, gentlemen, to seek every kind 
of knowledge that tends to the improvement of your moral and intel- 
lectual faculties. It is thus you will uphold the dignity and honour 
of your calling, and reap the harvest of life which only awaits those 
who can succeed to a certain degree in elevating themselves above 
ignorance and want. The peculiar utility of your employment, 
when judiciously and humanely conducted, will insure you public 
approval. Fear not that variety of knowledge was ever known to 
encumber its possessor ; but when it is combined with the power of 
observation, a retentive memory, a fixed attention, and a habit of 
generalizing and combining facts, you will commence your profes- 
sional studies with every prospect of success : then I do not doubt 
that, by your industry and perseverance, the knowledge of our art 
will be so perfected, and our acquaintance with the nature and 
treatment of diseases so extended, as in many cases to prevent, and 
in all to relieve to a certain extent, the sufferings of the animal 
creation. 
ALBUMINOUS URINE. 
By W. Percivall, Esq. V.S. 1.5/ Life Guards, M.R.C.S., $c. 
To this subject my attention was first drawn in December 1S3S. 
An officer’s charger, six years old, thoroughbred, who, before he 
came into the possession of his present owner, had been much used, 
and had obtained a good character as a hunter, exhibited some 
rather strange symptoms, respecting which my first impression was 
that he might have sprained his loins under too heavy weight in 
the riding-school. With a view of shedding some additional light 
upon his case, I desired that some of his urine might be caught; and 
this circumstance it was that at once unravelled the nature of the 
disease of which he was the subject. This urine proved to be 
light-coloured, but very thick in its consistence ; in fact, it was, 
when poured into a glass, very much like so much melted calf’s- 
foot jelly. I lost no time in consulting some of our best works on 
