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mire his way of gradually arriving at his diagnosis in locating 
the disease in the kidneys, but I would have gone one step fur¬ 
ther and diagnosed an aneurism as the cause, to which all the 
clinical symptoms pointed quite plainly. This aneurisma 
vermicosum, caused mostly by strongylus armatus, is com¬ 
monly confined to the anterior meseuteric artery (producing 
embolic colics), but occasionally involves the abdominal aorta, 
renal arteries and kidneys with tumor-like dilatations of enor¬ 
mous volume. 
Whenever our American veterinary colleges will have regu¬ 
lar courses on post-mortem examinations by veterinary patholo¬ 
gists instead of human pathologists, such elaborately worded 
mistakes as that emanating from the Carnegie laboratory will 
no longer happen. But I hope that Dr. Ellis will continue to 
favor the readers of the Review with his interesting clinical 
observations and lucid descriptions. Oeof Schwarzkopf. 
THE TREATMENT OF AZOTURIA. 
Columbiana, Ohio, April 30, 1900. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sirs : — I think we can treat azoturia more success¬ 
fully now with the normal saline solution, in addition to the 
iodide of potassium. In the New York Medical Record of 
April 14 there is an article by R. C. Kemp, M. D., on u Hypo- 
dermoclysis,” which I read, and on the next day I visited a 
mare which had been down with azoturia since the evening be¬ 
fore, she being two miles out of town. I was giving her the 
iodide of potassium treatment, as I had read it in the Review. 
I had also given her on the previous evening a quart of linseed 
oil. On Monday (third day from attack) I prepared a solution 
as follows : sodium chloride, one dram ; boiled water, one pint, 
which was percolated. I used my parturient paresis apparatus 
(funnel and tubing), with a large veterinary hypodermic needle 
attached to the tubing. I had an assistant fill the funnel and 
tube to force all air out. The solution was about as warm as 
the hand could bear, as it gets cool in passing through the ap¬ 
paratus. I forced the needle under the integument in the ilio¬ 
lumbar region, using massage to the muscles to distribute it, 
and forcing in one pint of the solution, repeating the operation 
on the opposite side. In a short time the animal was very 
thirsty. I had drawn the urine prior to the injection. The in¬ 
jection seemed to assist the action of the kidneys ; she rested 
Better, and could turn herself and tried to get on her feet, but 
