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even if the attendant should tell me that the animal had mic¬ 
turated all right a short time before my arrival; the charac¬ 
teristic dark coffee-colored urine of a syrupy conistency ; 
the gluteal region hard and swollen ; the pulse is more or less 
accelerated, due to the excessive exertions of the animal en¬ 
deavoring to gain its feet fruitlessly; sometimes the swelling 
and paralysis of the muscles is situated in the scapular region, 
tense and hard, similar to when situated in the gluteal, with 
great difficulty in moving the forward extremities. I may 
mention here that this disease is sometimes mistaken by 
owners of horses for dislocations of one of the hind limbs ; to 
verify this I will describe a case that came under my notice a 
few months ago: I was called through the telephone to go to 
Healdsburgh, sixteen miles from Santa Rosa, to a mare, the 
owner desiring me to bring all necessary tackle to return a 
dislocated thigh. I must confess upon receiving such mes¬ 
sage I was rather puzzled just how to act; nevertheless I took, 
as far as I could imagine, what I should require in such a 
lesion. Upon my arrival I found a large bay mare down in 
her stall, pulse 6o° F., respirations slightly increased, and she 
had evidently been sweating profusely ; she was able to rise, 
when she showed great lameness in the near hind leg ; the 
appearance of the whole of the near side of the hind extrem¬ 
ity was as though the hip had been knocked down ; she could 
use it quite briskly, so I came to the conclusion that there 
was no dislocation or fracture. Upon inquiry 1 found she 
had been suddenly taken that way the day before, I then 
suspected azoturia ; upon passing the catheter I found the 
bladder empty, but got sufficient urine to tell the character 
of same, which was of a dark coffee color, whereupon I had 
no hesitation in pronouncing it azoturia ; the owner and team¬ 
sters were very much surprised when I told them there was 
no dislocation ; the animal has since made a good recovery ; 
has a rather bad lameness and atrophy of the external mus¬ 
cles of the thigh. It is also not a very hard matter for mem¬ 
bers of the profession to mistake this disease for a sudden 
seizure of colic, acute rheumatism, and excessive strain of 
muscles of hind extremities if great care be not taken in a mi- 
