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A CASE OF NEPHRITIS. 
Bi/ Mr. M. A. Naylor, F.5'. Wakefield. 
Ido not remember having seen any case of nephritis recorded 
in The Veterinarian, and am therefore induced to extract 
one from my case-book, in the hope that some abler correspondent 
may take up the subject; or, at least, that it may elicit your va¬ 
luable comments. 
The subject of this report is a mountain pony, twelve hands 
high, coming three years old, and which the owner said had 
never been used, although it was shod. He had had it in his 
possession about a fortnight, and began to think that it was high 
time to make it a little serviceable. 
He accordingly mounted it; but he had not proceeded more 
than a mile, when it began to give way under him. The little 
animal made many attempts to lie down ; and it was not with¬ 
out much difficulty that it was got back into the stable. He 
immediately began to treat it as for gripes, being, as he said, ac¬ 
customed to horses from his boyhood. He thought that his 
treatment relieved the animal; but the effect was not permanent, 
for the pony was continually pawing and lying down. In this 
state, with a few intervals of relief, the little animal continued 
more than a week, when the owner requested that I would see it. 
On questioning my employer further, I discovered that the day 
previous to his being ridden, the pony had been cast in the field, 
under some rails, between which he had got, and could not extri¬ 
cate himself, and that he had struggled there for sometime on 
his back, with his fore legs on one side, and his hinder legs on 
the other side of the rails. 
August \dth .—I now first saw him. He was lying down, and 
his pulse was from 56 to 60. On getting up, he voided with 
much pain a small quantity of high-coloured urine, and the 
pulse was accelerated. When I pressed on the loins, he flinched 
almost to crouching; but there was no tenderness in the peri- 
nseum. I examined the bladder, which was empty. I adminis¬ 
tered three drachms of aloes, made into a drink, with the yolk of 
an egg and a little sweet oil, and repeated the dose in the even¬ 
ing, ordering bran mashes, and thin gruel. 
20th, 7 A.M. —The bowels not yet acted upon. Pulse 58. 
Give aloes 3iss, prepared in the same way. 
7 p. M. —Pulse 62, considerably weaker; the animal in pain ; 
breath foetid; eats nothing. Give chloride of soda and spirit 
of nitrous eether, of each two drachms, in 2 :ruel. 
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