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PIERRE A. FISH. 
The flesh and milk of animals receiving water of this descrip¬ 
tion has often a bad taste and a peculiar odor. 
The poisoning of animals from drinking the water of an 
Australian lake is recorded in Vol. XVIII of Natttre. 
A protococcns forms a scum like green paint from 2. to 6 
inches thick on the surface of the lake. Cattle will not drink 
the water after it has been standing some time, as it gives off a 
stench of urine and butyric acid. It produces stupor and con- I 
vnlsions. Sheep die in one to eight hours, horses eight to 
twenty hours. Post-mortem appearances were not remarkable 
for any great change : the blood is black and don’t coagulate, 
the brain is congested. 
Gentlemen, I have entered rather fully into the subject 
of water, for the reason that I am persuaded we have many 
diseases affecting horses and cattle which are due to its in¬ 
fluence. There can be no doubt that for the full enjoyment 
of health an unlimited and pure supply of water is necessary; 
and though the effects of a bad supply may not produce in 
many cases any positively hurtful effect such as we see, yet, it 
must be a means of exposing the health of animals to the risk 
by lowering the tone of the system and rendering them more 
susceptible to contract zymotic poisons when these are present. 
A SIMPLE TEST FOR THE DETECTION OF ALBU¬ 
MEN IN URINE. 
By Pierre A. Fish, N. Y. State Veterinary Coeeege, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Read before the Eighth Annual Meeting of the New York State Veterinary Medical 
Society, Sept. 14-15, 1898. 
Among those agents which have the property of coagulat¬ 
ing or precipitating albumen, alcohol holds a prominent posi¬ 
tion. Its use in the detection of albumen in urine does not 
seem to have been practised very extensively, if at all. 
The following tests, with alcohol, have been tried upon 
urine containing albumen, and upon control solutions of albu¬ 
men in distilled water. In one set of experiments some dry 
