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CONSULTATIONS. 
bowels were in a healthy state, I did not give her any linseed oil. 
The paroxysms of pain have returned only once since I began the 
treatment recommended by you, and that was of short duration. 
She has returned to her work, usually hard draught- work, and 
sometimes she has been ridden. In no instance did she appear to 
suffer any inconvenience. 
In endeavouring to satisfy myself as to the difference between your 
suggestion and the conclusion to which I and some veterinary friends 
had arrived, I confess that I do not see my way very clearly. There 
was a great quantity of carbonaceous matter present in her urine, 
which rapidly effervesced with the muriatic, nitric, and sulphuric 
acids. Great pain was exhibited when the right lumbar region was 
pressed upon, and also when there was pressure per rectum , on the 
kidney on the same side. The membranes lining the bladder and 
vagina were highly inflamed, and the urine was occasionally with- 
held for the space of twenty-four hours. These were grounds, and, 
we thought, very reasonable ones, on which we founded our opi- 
nion as to the presence of a calculus in the pelvis of the right 
kidney. 
On the other hand, there seemed to be a total absence of the con- 
comitant symptoms of intestinal calculi, or an intestinal calculus, 
excepting the occasional pains which she suffered ; for her bowels 
readily responded to a dose of four drachms of aloes in two in- 
stances : her evacuations always had a healthy appearance, and at 
no time did we particularly notice any unusual detention or inordi- 
nate evacuation of faeces. The appetite was only impaired when 
she was actually suffering pain. 
She now voids a considerable quantity of comparatively clear 
urine, and we can no longer trace the peculiar character of the 
urine which -was at first exhibited. 
As this case was one of considerable interest from its duration, 
and apparent unyielding character, and, afterwards, from the rapid 
restoration of the patient, has not the public some claim upon it] or, 
might not a short statement of it possibly elicit the publication of 
other analogous cases ] 
Faithfully your’s, 
W. R. 
[The case is thus laid before the veterinary public, and, any re- 
marks on it, or “the publication of analogous cases,” would be 
thankfully received. A case very much resembling the present 
one was lately in the hospital of the Royal Veterinary College. 
Mr. Sewell considered it as one of chronic enteritis. Professor 
Spooner, we believe, will give us some account of it. — Y.] 
