AZOTURIA. 
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While some animals will recover under any and all circum¬ 
stances in a great many diseases, as they seem to have immunity 
from death, as they have immunity at times from the effects of 
the wrong treatment, here is a treatment in azoturia, and the 
case is reported as having made a good recovery : 
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Hyd. chlo. mit., 3 i- 
with tincture opii, to be given as often as necessary. To relax 
the bowels is the duty of one, while the other is to constipate. 
While it is known that tincture opii will increase the secretions 
of the skin, it will dry up all other secretions in the body, and 
will produce, if continued repeatedly, cerebral convulsions. 
In regard to purgative medicines in this disease, I assure 
you that I have had a larger per cent, of recovery among ani¬ 
mals that did not respond to the action of a cathartic than I had 
from those which responded promptly to the cathartic. It was 
my custom to give it to all the animals. This led me to consider 
well, and finally to discontinue their use, with much better re¬ 
sults. As the fsecal matter had done all the harm it could pos¬ 
sibly do at the time the animal was taken with the disease, our 
aim should be to get rid of the various poisons that the system 
is overloaded with. 
Now as to treatment. The one point most to be observed 
in the treatment, not only of azoturia, but in all diseases, is to 
know the pathological condition of the animal when seen. It 
is important to know the stage the animal is in, as what would 
have the desired effect in the acute or inflammatory condition 
would not only be useless in the second stage, but would aggra¬ 
vate the disease, as perhaps is the case with bleeding. While a 
cathartic in one stage would be the proper remedy, in the next 
stage it might induce irritation that would kill the animal. 
The oil laxatives would be more beneficial. If they did no good 
they would do no harm, but would have a nutritive effect. The 
question may be asked why give oil for nutritive effect when it 
was too much feeding that assisted in the disease? The 
answer is that the very good living that assisted in causing the 
