AZOTURIA IN THE DOG. 
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jective, subjective, and suggestive. In treating animals we must 
depend almost wholly upon the objective and suggestive, while 
the human physician relies greatly upon the subjective. 
AZOTURIA IN THE DOG. 
By G. Ed. Leech, D. V. S., Milwaukee, Wis. 
Read before the Wisconsin Association of Veterinary Graduates. 
Ill looking over the list of the literature of my own and sev¬ 
eral other libraries I am unable to find anything that would give 
me any light on the subject. But I have always made my motto 
the word “forward,” and with your co-operatiou and that of the 
profession in this, as well as other cases, we may be able to place 
the veterinary literature upon the plane to which it belongs. 
But it must be by persistent efforts and continual study and in¬ 
vestigation that this can be accomplished, and those who fail in 
this will soon find themselves out of the race. 
In taking up this subject it is not necessary for me to say to 
you that it is a disease characterized by tonic and clonic spasms 
of the pelvic and lumbar muscles, for you all know that it may 
also happen to the muscles of the pectorals as well. And in 
neither need I tell you that the urine voided need to be darkly 
colored and .nitrogenous and of a high specific gravity, for you 
are well aware of the fact that it may also be albuminous and of 
a low specific gravity also, but generally having a more or less 
nitrogenous nature. 
But in making up the etiology it is very important for me 
to say that the primary cause of the disease is dietetic, and as 
such is the case what animal is more liable to these errors than 
the trusted friend of man, the dog? And generally they are 
very much abused for want of exercise in the proper manner. I 
have found that nearly all of the owners of dogs err in the way 
of feeding; that is, they do not pay enough attention to the 
changing of food to suit the condition of the animal or their 
vocation, and on account of this abuse they are more liable to 
such an attack than most other animals. 
