CASK OF HEMATURIA*. 
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England, the cradle of liberty, the nurse of science, veterinary 
practitioners have not the ability and the honest pride efficiently 
to support one journal. 
For my own part, had not a severe indisposition, and the bus¬ 
tle and inconvenience attendant on a change of residence, so 
much increased my engag’ements, I should long ago have ven¬ 
tured to have sent a second communication to your valuable 
Journal;—however, I now embrace the very earliest opportunity 
of transmitting to you the following cases, which, if you regard 
worthy of insertion, are at your service. 
I am. Gentlemen, your obedient servant, 
G. W. Allinson. 
Idle, Yorkshire, 2fZ Nov. 1833. 
CASE OF HEMATURIA. 
On the evening of the 20th July, 1830, I was requested with¬ 
out delay to visit an aged horse (the property of Ward Grange, 
Esq., near Pately Bridge), that had several times in the course 
of the previous hour passed large quantities of blood instead of 
w^ater. On my way to the place, I saw coagulated blood in three 
places, not far apart, every one apparently three or four quarts. 
I found the horse in the pasture, where they had placed him for 
convenience of interment, as the owner felt persuaded that the 
discharge was too profuse to be controuled by medicine. 
Symptoms .—Pulse 75, full, strong, and bounding; bowels 
open; extremities warm ; respiration hurried, and a slight heav¬ 
ing of the flanks. I was just going to open the jugular vein, 
when a change of posture directed my attention to the penis. 
After a slight spasmodic erection, Slos of blood were voided. 
The pulse was not affected by it; but there appeared a slight 
degree of pain on moving the hind quarters, and a curling of the 
upper lip that did not exist before. I then made a large open¬ 
ing into the jugular, from which the blood flowed rapidly ; but it 
was not until five quarts had issued from the orifice that there 
was any change in the pulse, when it fell to 48. I had just se¬ 
cured the opening, when the animal became sick, and lay down. 
I administered an ounce of tinct. opii with a pint of water. In 
a few minutes the patient rallied, and was gently led to the 
stable : half an hour afterwards the following drink was given,— 
Powdered opium ^ss, acetate of lead 5j, gum assafoetida ^j, 
mint water half a pint. 
