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again rose in the evening a little over a degree and registered 38°C. on the morning of the
9th, the pulse being 60 and respirations 12, but the hæmatozoon was absent from the blood.
It will thus be observed on reference to the chart, that five days and a half had elapsed
since the commencement of the Arsenical treatment and during that period, fifty-six grains
had been given in the drinking water. For the next two days the dose was increased to
fourteen grains per diem, in order to try and effect the destruction of any immature forms
of the organism which might be present in the blood. The temperature on the morning
of the second day registered 36.5°C, the animal presented a brighter appearance and some
further absorption of the exudation on the under-surface of the abdomen had taken place,
although that of the limbs continued unabated. During the period which elapsed between
the 11th of December 1892 and the 4th January 1893, the Arsenical treatment was con
tinued. The Surra hæmatozoon was absent from the blood.
The maximum dose of grains vii was again exhibited on the 14th and loth December,
but from the latter date it was gradually reduced by one grain at a time until the minimum
of grains iii was reached on the 3rd January. On the 16th December the animal com
menced to lose flesh rapidly, although previous to that date it had become to a certain
extent emaciated within the limits of health. From this date, however, in spite of the
amount of food consumed, progressive atrophy of the muscles set in, especially along either
side of the spinal column and those surrounding the hip-joints and buttocks. The œdema
of the extremities and under-surface of the abdomen, entirely disappeared and as before
mentioned the girth of the animal's body just in line with the sheath measured only 57
inches. No doubt this can be readily accounted for by the condition of the kidneys, for,
during a period of nearly five weeks, a large amount of albumen was found in the urine
varying between ⅓rd and 1/22nd but only on one occasion as low as 1/40th. Epithelial, blood and
granular casts were present for the first eighteen days of the disease and were followed by
hæmaturia varying in amount for twenty days, during which period no casts or crystals were
discovered in the urine.
From the evening of the 3rd December 1892 until the evening of the 3rd of January
1893 three hundred and one grains of Arsenic in the form of Liq. Arsenicalis were given
in the drinking water and the hæmatozoon was absent from the blood for a period of
twenty-seven days.
RECORDS OF URINE.
Animal, Grey Australian.
No. LXXVL, Disease, naturally contracted Surra.
Date.
1892.
November,.26 ..
27 ..
28...
29 ...30 ..
December, 1 ..
2
3
4 ..
5.
6 ..
7 ...
8 ..
9 ..
10 ..
11 ..
12 ..
13 ..
14 ..
15 ..
16 ..
17 ..
18 ..
19 ..
20 ..
21 ..
22
23
26
27
28 ..
30 ..
31 ..
1893.
January,
1 ..
2 ..
3 ..
4
..
Quantity.
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.. ..
..
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.. ..
..
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.. ..
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Colour.
Turbid,
viscid,
greenish-orange.
Turbid,
viscid,
pea-soup.
Do.
Do.
Turbid,
viscid,
brownish-green.
Do.
Turbid,
viscid,
orange.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Turbid, smoky-
red. Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Turbid, orange..
Do.
Turbid, faint-red.
Turbid, orange ..
Turbid, reddish-
yellow.
Turbid, orange..
Turbid, viscid-
yellow.
Turbid,
viscid,
orange.
Turbid, orange
Turbid,
viscid,
pale-yellow.
Re-action.
Alkaline
Do.
Do.
no.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Neutral
Do.
Add
Do.
Do.
Alkaline
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do. Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
..
Do.
Do.
Acid
Specific
Gravity.
1,014
1,036
1,035
1,028
1,021
1,026
1,020
1,026
1,012
1,014
1,014
1,012
1,012
1,011.
1,0:4
1,010
1,012
1,014 1,012
1,019
1,010
1,014
1,014
1,016
1,011
1,014
1,010
1,014
1,012
1,012
1,014
1,012
1,011
1,011.
1,014
1,014
1,012
1,013
Albu
men.
Nil.
l/10th
l/22 nd
l/15th
⅛th
l/7th
l/3rd
1/12th
l/6 th
l/9 th
1/11 th
1/10 th
l/3rd
1/5 th
1/llth
1/oth
l/14 th
l/12 th
l/7 th
l/5th
1/8th
1/6 th
l/7th
l/5th
l/5 th
l/6 th
1/5 th
l/5 th
1/16 th
1/Sth
1/7 th
1/9 th
1/9 th
1/Sth
l/13th
l/13th
1/10th
Nil.
Phosphates.
Considerable
amount.
Precipitate
Do.
Do.
Do.
Slight precipi
tate.
Do.
Trace
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
REMARKS.
Granular casts in number, Calcium
Carbonate crystals.
Do.
Do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Granular casts, few Carbonates and
Oxalates.
Do.
do.
Blood numerous and few epithelial
} casts, pus cells, no crystals, re-action
for bile well marked.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Granular casts, pus cells, a few Oxalates
Do.
do.
Cranular casts, pus cells, Oxalates, Do
Carbonates..
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Granular and blood casts, a few pus
cells and Oxalates.
Few granular and blood casts, free red-
blood corpuscles, no crystals.
Red blood corpuscles and no casts, no
crystals.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
No casts, red blood corpuscles. no
crystals.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
No casts, a few red blood corpuscles
some vesical epithelium, no crystals.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.