CHRONIC INFLAMMATION, AND ENTIRE DISOR¬ 
GANIZATION OF THE KIDNEYS. 
[By the mmeJ\ 
ON the 23d of February, 1825, I was requested to see a brown 
cart horse, belonging to the same gentleman, that had had the 
gripes,’" as the farrier called it, about a fortnight before Christmas, 
and had not been well since. 
Symptoms. —Walks rather wide with his hinder legs, and bows 
them out in a peculiar way ; flinches when pressed over the loins. 
Pulse 30; appetite good. Has been repeatedly bled, and has 
had medicine. Purging and alterative balls were now given to 
keep the bowels regular. He was again bled several times; a 
mustard blister was applied to his loins, and a rowell inserted in 
his thigh. The blood always contained a great quantity of serum; 
and his pulse varied from 25 to 30. He gradually became 
weaker, though he fed tolerably well, and was lively, and did 
not appear to be in any pain. On the 1st of April following he 
suddenly died. 
Examination. —On taking off * the capsule, each kidney was 
found to be in a complete state of putrefaction, of a light blueish 
colour; the texture totally destroyed, so that the finger would 
pass through any part of them as through mud. The vessels 
of the kidneys did not appear diseased when I dreiv them out of 
the diseased masses. The other viscera were perfectly sound, 
except two or three places on the small intestines, about the size 
of one’s hand, which were considerable inflamed. He voided 
urine in small quantities and high coloured. 
I think it probable that the attack which they called gripes” 
was an acute inflammation of the kidneys. 
A LETTER 
Addressed by One of the Non-Eligible’^ to S'//’Astley Cooper, 
on the Constitution of the Veterinarij Examining Committee. 
Sir, 
IN presuming thus publicly to address you on a subject about 
which you have perhaps already, in one way or another, been too 
much importuned, I have not the vanity to imagine that any thing 
I can urge will induce you to alter your present expressed opinions; 
nor, indeed, to suppose that 1 can offer any thing stronger than what 
