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water. Hot blankets wet with mustard water are packed 
over the kidneys, and carefully attended to. Urine must be 
drawn at least twice in twenty-four hours, and if the animal 
is down he must be turned every six or eight hours regularly 
from the commencement. I also solicit an action of the 
bowels by the use every eight hours of an injection of soap¬ 
suds or warm water, and one ounce of glycerine added. Let 
him have all the cold water he wants. Bran mash may be 
given him to eat, with very little hay to keep him quiet. 
Stimulants, I think, spirits of nitre, etc., do harm in the first 
stages, but after two or three days they seem to have a good 
effect. If given at first they seem to increase the uneasiness. 
There seems to be no danger from super-purgation. I have 
never been able to produce it; I have given ten drachms of 
aloes and two pounds of sulphate of magnesia with scarcely 
more than a laxative action of the bowels. Fresh air in cur¬ 
rents must be supplied in abundance. If the attempt to sling 
at first be unsuccessful I do not attempt it again for two or 
three days; the slings to be of the latest pattern, as poor 
slings do more harm than good. 
When the horse is able to stand without the slings they 
should at first be placed under him at night, as there is some 
danger that the exertion in rising may cause rupture of blood 
vessels. This accident occurred in one case that 1 was in¬ 
terested in, causing the death of an animal that had practi¬ 
cally recovered from azoturia. 
The results in my practice from this treatment have been 
very successful, as high as ninety per cent, of the cases 
treated as described having recovered. In this connection, 
however, it must be considered that we have intelligent stable 
foremen who are able to recognize the disease promptly, and 
also understand its requirements in nearly all cases. The 
remedies are applied early, the necessary appliances are near 
at hand, which, of course, helps greatly to lessen the death 
rate. 
As I am a new member of your profession, and this is my 
first attempt at writing a paper to be read before an Associa¬ 
tion of professional gentlemen, with years of practical experi- 
