e mainly albuminous,
such as wheat bran or middlings, peas, beans, vetches, and milk. Indeed,
an exclusive milk diet is one of the very best remedial agencies. It may
be given as skimmed milk or butter-milk, and in the last case combines
an antidiabetic remedy in the lactic acid. Under such an exclusive diet
recent and mild cases are often entirely restored, though at the expense
of an attack of rheumatism. Codeia, one of the alkaloids of opium, is
strongly recommended by Tyson. The dose for the horse would be 10 to 15
grains thrice daily. In cases in which there is manifest irritation of
the brain, bromid of potassium, 4 drams, or ergot one-half ounce, may be
resorted to. Salicylic acid and salicylate of sodium have proved useful
in certain cases; also phosphate of sodium. Bitter tonics (especially
nux vomica one-half dram) are useful in improving the digestion and
general health.

HEMATURIA (BLOODY URINE).

_Cause._--As seen in the horse, bloody urine is usually the direct
result of mechanical injuries, as sprains and fractures of the loins,
lacerations of the sublumbar muscles (psoas), irritation caused by stone
in the kidney, ureter, bladder, or urethra. It may, however, occur with
acute congestion of the kidney, with tumors in its substance, or with
papilloma or other diseased growth in the bladder. Acrid diuretic plants
present in the feed may also lead to the escape of blood from the
kidney. The predisposition to this affection is, however, incomparably
less than in the case of the ox or the sheep, the difference being
attributed to the greater plasticity of the horse's blood in connection
with the larger quantity of fibrin.

The blood may be present in small clots or in more or less intimate
admixture with the urine. Its condition may furnish some indication as
to its source; thus, if from the kidneys it is more liable to be
uniformly diffused through the urine, while as furnished by the bladder
or passages clots are more liable to be present. Again, in bleeding from
the kidney, minute, cylindrical clots inclosing blood globules and
formed in the uriniferous tubes can be detected under the microscope.
Precision also may be approximated by observing whether there is
coexisting fracture, sprain of the loins, or stone or tumor in the
bladder or urethra.

_Treatment._--The disease being mainly due to direct injury, treatment
will consist, first, in removing such cause whenever possible, and then
in applying g