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A CASE OF ENLAEOED URETEFS, AND 
nearer we approach perfection in breed, so much greater is the 
predisposition to disease in the feet, and, consequently, difficulty in 
shoeing ; therefore, I say, it is with the feet of well-bred animals 
only that we can decide upon the superior merits of French and 
English shoeing. 
A CASE OF ENLARGED URETERS, AND DISEASED 
KIDNEYS IN A COW. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, Whitchurch. 
This spring, Mr. Booth, of the Tremlows, had one of his cows 
that voided urine of the colour of sherry wine, and occasionally 
of a deeper colour, and having a small portion of purulent matter 
in it. She milked pretty well during the summer. It was not 
suspected that the high-coloured urine interfered with her health, 
and consequently no medicine had been given to her. Her urine 
was only observed to be discoloured in the spring and the begin¬ 
ning of summer, and for some months before her death it was not 
observed at all. 
About the middle of October she was dried of her milk, and 
turned out into a better pasture, in order to get her into a little better 
condition, for she was becoming a little out of sorts. For three or 
four days previous to her death she was strangely altered in her 
temper, and ran at every one that went into the field, and nearly 
killed one man. The morning after this they went to look at her, 
and found her dead. 
She was brought to this town by a butcher for his pigs, and he 
gave to me the opportunity of imperfectly examining her. 
I had not time to examine the brain. When the carcass was 
hung up in the slaughter-house, the kidneys were found to be the 
parts principally diseased. 
The right Kidney and ureter was cut away and removed in a 
slovenly manner, and also cut to pieces. I, however, could see 
that it was ulcerated in many places, and contained a considerable 
quantity of pus about the ulcerated parts. The ureter was also 
evidently enlarged. The examination of these parts could not 
be an accurate one, on account of the circumstances which I have 
stated, and my being called away at the time. 
On taking a view of the left kidney as it hung up, it was evi¬ 
dently considerably enlarged, and the ureter lay on the front of it, 
and was also seen to be enlarged all along to the bladder. This 
kidney was double its natural size, and weighed three pounds. I 
did not cut it to pieces, but only made an incision into it, through 
