American Veterinary Review, 
MARCH, 1885. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
AZOTURIA. 
By Dr. Rogers, of Westville. 
(Paper read before the Association at Trenton, N. J., Dec. 10th, 1884. 
I purpose to-day to call your attention to Azoturia, the hemo¬ 
globinuria of the Germans. The first notice of this condition in 
English-speaking literature is found in Haycock’s contribution to 
veterinary pathology—article, Hysteria. 
Haycock observed the disease only in mares, and was led to 
the conclusion that it was an abnormality of the sexual function 
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somewhat analogous to lymphomania. Subsequent writers have 
shown that it is almost as frequent in horses as in mares. 
Symptoms .—These follow usually in a well worn groove. The 
horse after a number of days of confinement, during which time 
he has received his usual allowance of highly nutritious food, is 
taken out to drive; he goes well up the bit, indeed the driver 
often remarks that he could hardly hold him at times; then, with¬ 
out premonition he falls in the shafts, unable to rise with or without 
assistance. The animal, retaining all his powers of mind, exhausts 
himself in fruitless struggles to rise, breaks out into a profuse 
perspiration, and if urine is discharged during this time it is 
usuallj 7 dark in color, coagulating rapidly on cooling. Sometimes 
this condition persists until death, at others the symptoms amelj- 
