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THE PATHOLOGY OF AZOTURIA. 
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His theory leads him to adopt a line of therapeutical action 
which clinical observation and even his own words con¬ 
demn. 
Advising in all cases a brisk aloetic purge in the first 
stages, he practically consigns his severe cases to death, while 
in those mild cases, where the horse is still able to stand, and 
where rest and quietude, without medication, constitutes a 
practical specific, his drastic purge, based upon his theory of 
the pathology, leads him to remark that “ so long as the ani¬ 
mal is able to stand, though unable to execute any movement, 
there is always some prospect for recovery.” 
The ideas of other English writers vary greatly, but can¬ 
not be reviewed here, and German writers are evidently no 
more nearly agreed. Bollinger terms the disease “ toxaemic 
haemoglobinuria, due to auto-intoxication, resulting from the 
action of cold or exercise, forming a toxic ferment which 
destroys the red blood corpuscles and leads to haemoglob¬ 
inuria.” 
Frohner rejects Bollinger’s views in the main, and adopts 
the name ‘‘rheumatic haemoglobinaemia,” due to “taking 
cold,” and resulting mainly in a primary inflammation of the 
posterior muscles, leading to a disintegration of the coloring 
matter of the muscles (identical with haemoglobin) and its 
passage into the blood. 
Dieckerhoff believes the affection to be an acute constitu¬ 
tional malady, evidenced by severe parenchymatons, myositis, 
and proposes the name “lumbago gravis,” the latter term 
being indicative of the very grave nature of the disease, 
viewed from his clinical observation under that therapeutical 
management suggested by his view of its nature. Like many 
others, he suspects the existence in the hypernitrogenous 
blood of a toxic ferment. 
Further reference to the diverse views of manv writers 
would only add to the number of theories, without adding to 
or detracting from any one. 
It is a well recognized fact that in those diseases whose 
pathology and etiology have been satisfactorily determined, 
there always exists a reasonably perfect harmony between the 
