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very hard, but being quite unable to rise was dragged to a 
loose box on a gate. 
The owner asked me to attend at once, and on my arrival 
I found the muscles of the loins and hind quarters quite hard, 
and all the symptoms of well-marked azoturia. I at once 
passed the catheter, which allowed the escape of a large quan¬ 
tity of coffee-colored urine, gave a purgative ball, packed the 
mare up, and left her with instructions to the attendant to 
give a dose of medicine (sps. ether, nit.) every three or four 
hours. I passed a catheter night and morning for the next 
few days, and at the same time prescribed ether, nit.; this 
was all the treatment the mare got. On the third day she 
could raise herself a little, and on the fourth could stand for 
an hour or so at a time ; affer this she improved rapidly, and 
was ready for work in about fourteen days. 
I allowed no food except bran mashes and hay until she 
was fit for outdoor exercise. 
Case II.—Bay mare seven years old, the property of a 
butcher. Symptoms similar to first, except that though she 
became very weak behind she did not loose power to stand. 
Adopted same treatment as before, and the mare was ready 
for work in about a week. 
Case III.—Dun mare, aged, and in foal; after going about 
one and one-half miles from home the owner thought the bit 
hurt, and made his coachman get down to examine it, but 
finding her begin to sweat and blow and drag her hind legs, 
they turned for home, and with difficulty arrived there. I 
happened to call to see another horse just as the mare got in, 
and gave similar treatment as in case I. 
This mare made a good recovery, and was not worked 
again, due to being in foal; was turned to grass, and is ex¬ 
pected to foal early this spring. 
Believing (as set forth in Principal Williams’ book on Vet¬ 
erinary Medicine) that azoturia is a dietetic disease, I made 
careful inquiry as to the feeding and general management, 
and found: 
Case I.—At hard regular work, and getting beside a small 
allowance of corn a bundle of green clover two or three 
times a day. 
