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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
sipient mortification of the kidneys; and what seems to 
favour this opinion is, that the urine has invariably a most 
disagreeable and offensive smell, not unlike the effluvia pro¬ 
ceeding from rotten cabbage, or other vegetable substances. 
Cause. —It has been observed, that cattle which feed 
upon a poor, cold, wet soil are liable to this affection. 
Hitherto no other cause has been given. 
Remedies. —Bleeding should first be resorted to, and two 
to three quarts may be taken at first, and afterwards the 
following medicine to be given :— 
Peruvian bark 
Iron filings . 
Purified nitre 
Laudanum 
1 ounce. 
1 ounce. 
1-J ounce. 
^ ounce; 
with two ounces of lintseed-meal dissolved in a quart of 
warm water. 
This disease too frequently ends fatally. When cows 
have this malady, bleeding must not be resorted to. 
The following recipe has generally proved effectual in re¬ 
moving the complaint, and even by one application of it .— 
Prepared kali 
Tartarized antimony 
Gamboge 
Gum-foetida 
3 drachms, 
3 drachms, 
1 drachm, 
^ ounce. 
To be given in a quart of lintseed-gruel; and if it does not 
remove the complaint within two days, a second dose may 
be given. If the urine still exhibits a bloody appearance, 
let the following mixture be given every day, until a cure is 
effected — 
Dried willow-bark, powdered 1 ounce. 
Balsam of capivi 
Laudanum . 
Epsom salts 
I ounce, 
| ounce, 
4 ounces. 
