HEMATURIA (ACUTE RED-WATEli) IN CATTLE. 135 
stage of the malady. Every impostor has his peculiar recipe; 
and, unhappily for agriculture and for the veterinary surgeon, the 
number of these impostors is far too great in our country. 
Animals bred in the valley, and who pass from thence to the 
woody pastures which cover our mountains, all suffer from this 
change of food. They should be left in the woods but a very 
little time, and should occasionally return to the stable, their 
herdsmen keeping the strictest surveillance over them ; for I 
have never known the same beast have this disease a second time. 
If we are called in at the commencement of the disease, one 
light bleeding may sometimes be prescribed, depending on the 
degree of inflammation that is observed. But in general it will 
be prudent to be very cautious in the employment of the lancet. 
Emollient ptisans, and injections of the same kind, should also 
be employed wdth much caution : it should be the same with the 
vapour bath, and emollient applications to the loins. In fact, 
we cannot employ these means to any good purpose more than 
a day or two; and if the hsematuria continues, we should have 
recourse to a decoction of sorrel in milk, and the animal should 
also be made to take some pounds of rice and barley-water. If, 
on the third or the fourth day, the colour of the urine is as deep 
as at first, and the pulse has become small, and the beating of 
the heart more powerful, we may, with less danger than at the 
commencement, employ tonic astringents, commencing always 
with the least active. Thus we may make the animal take cold 
ptisans of willow, oak, or horse-chestnut tree bark, with which 
some ferruginous salt has been mixed. We may likewise con¬ 
tinue the decoctions of sorrel and milk, and sharpen the tonic 
injections with some drops of vinegar. 
Does the pulse, exceedingly weak, form a strange contrast 
with the strong and rapid beatings of the heart? we must hasten 
to employ analeptics, as pure milk, bouillies, soups of well- 
crushed potatoes, which the patients must be made to swallow; 
also some meat broth, and some ounces of jjowdered gentian 
infused in wine. Such are the means which I daily emnloy ; 
and if in our country the loss amounts to one animal out of four, 
it is because the veterinary surgeon is not called in until the 
charlatan has wasted all his resources, and the poor beast is in a 
desperate state. 
litcueilj Oct, 1837. 
