. The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease. mouth is foul, and the animal suffers pain with eachurination. Treatment.—Medicines are of no avail where the sys-tem of feeding is defective. Remove constipation by ajudicious use of aperients. At first avoid food rich instarchy matters, as roots, peas, beans, &c., and condi-mental foods which contain locust beans. A few oats,with bran and sweet clover chaff will be most only gentle exercise daily without tiring the patient;clean the skin thoroughly by the damp wisp, or makeuse of the Roman bath. Give ni


. The horse : its varieties and management in health and disease. mouth is foul, and the animal suffers pain with eachurination. Treatment.—Medicines are of no avail where the sys-tem of feeding is defective. Remove constipation by ajudicious use of aperients. At first avoid food rich instarchy matters, as roots, peas, beans, &c., and condi-mental foods which contain locust beans. A few oats,with bran and sweet clover chaff will be most only gentle exercise daily without tiring the patient;clean the skin thoroughly by the damp wisp, or makeuse of the Roman bath. Give nitro-hydrochloric acid, 1dim., in an effusion of quassia, 1 pint; and if debility isgreat, add nitrous ether. At a later stage give iron tonics,No. 1 or 2. Traumatic Albuminuria.—The urine, sometimes 214 Diseases of the Urinary Organs, copious, is loaded with albumen, and resembles cases are usually the result of injury, as sprains ofthe back, and injudicious use of cantharides, when theanimal stands with his back arched and the feet drawn. -*/• Acute Albuminuria. together. The pulse and respiration are then much dis-turbed, surface heat unequal, constipation, &c. A chronicform is induced by defective feeding, when the animalstands with the back arched downwards and the legs „-?/?%>-


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