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Double Iodide of Potassium and Mercury (Iodic-Hydrarg) could be commenced. On the
morning of the 16th the, thermometer registered 39.2°C., and the organism was absent for
the first time during a period of ten days. Four grains of the drug were administered,
followed by a similar dose in the evening, which had the eftect of bringing down the tem
perature on the morning of the 17th, to 38°5C., with the organisms still absent. On the
19th, although Iodic-Hydrarg grains xxxviii had been given, the hæmatozoon had re-appeared
in the blood. The thermometer registered 39.2°C, and 39.8°C. by 5 P.M. This treatment
was continued until the 21st with unsatisfactory results, as the temperature was 40.3°C.
and the organisms numerous in the blood, So after giving another dose of Quinæ Sulph.
3iij an Arsenical treatment was substituted for the Iodic-Hydrarg. On the morning of the
22nd, after the administration to the animal of Arsenic grains x, the organism disappeared
from the blood, and on the 25th the temperature fell as low as 36.5°0. But on the 27th,
the date of a recurrence in the ordinary course of events, the hæmatozoon was again found
in small numbers in the blood for one day. Thus only an abortive paroxysm took place,
its further course being frustrated by the effect of the Arsenic. From this date until the
morning of the 15th December, on which date death took place, a period of seventeen days,
the hæmatozoon was absent from the blood. Unfortunately the presence of albumen in the
urine from the very first day previous to the treatment being commenced followed at
a later date by numerous blood and granular casts, was a very serious symptom and really
contra-indicated the treatment adopted, in view of the serious kidney lesion betokened, but
as the disease was rapidly progressive, it was necessary to adopt some form of treatment
capable of destroying the hæmatozoon as quickly as possible, so that after giving Santonin
a trial, Iodic-Hydrarg was employed but with negative results, so that one was forced to fall
back upon Arsenic in the form of Liq. Arsenicalis.
RECORDS OF URINE.
Animal, Grey Arab Gelding No. LXXIV.
Dale, November 9 th, 1892.
Disease, Naturally Contracted Surra.
Date.
1S92.
November 9th.
„ 10th.
„ 11th.
„ 12th.
„ 13th.
„ 14th.
„ 15th.
„ 16th.
„ 17th.
„ 18th.
„ 19th.
„ 20th.
„ 21st .
„
22nd.
„
23rd.
„ 25th.
„ 26th.
„ 27th.
„
28th.
„29th.
„ 30th.
December 1st .
„ 2nd .
Quan¬
tity.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Colour.
Viscid, turbid
yellow.
Turbid, viscid
orange.
Turbid, viscid
bright-yellow.
Turbid, viscid,
orange.
Turbid,
ex
ceedingly
viscid.
Turbid, viscid,
orange.
Do.
Clear, viscid,
orange.
Turbid, viscid,
orange.
Do.
...
Turbid, viscid,
greenish-yel
low
Turbid, viscid,
orange.
Turbid, viscid,
greenish-ye 1¬
low.
Turbid, viscid,
orange.
Turbid, viscid,
dark-brown.
Turbid, viscid,
greenish-
brown.
Turbid, viscid,
greenish
orange.
Turbid, viscid,
pea-soup.
Do.
Do.
Turbid, viscid,
orange.
Turbid, viscid,
green.
Do.
Re-action.
Alkaline.
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Acid
Alkaline.
Neutral .
Acid
Alkaline.
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do- ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Specific
Gra
vity.
1,032
1,042
1,032
1,024
1,030
1,032
1,026
1,020
1,036
1,024
1,042
1,032
1,026
1,020
1,018
1,024
1,026
1,024
1,016
1,018
1,022
1,024
1,030
Albumen.
Faint trace.
Nil
A trace...
1/18
1/37
1/38
⅛
1/28
1/20
1/13
1/ 9
1/22
1/ 7
⅓
¼
1/9
1/11
1/20
Nil ...
1/23
1/50
1/12
1/6
Phosphates.
Nil.
Do.
Do.
A trace.
Do.
Do
Do.
A trace...
Do. ...
Do. ...
Do, ...
Do. ...
Do.
Do.
Heavy pre
cipitate.
Nil
Do.
A trace...
Consider
able.
Nil
Trace ...
Do.
...
Nil
REMARKS.
Crystals of Nitrate.
Granular casts, few Carbonates,
few Oxalates.
Large number of granular casts.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.
Blood and granular casts, Carbo
nates and Oxalates.
Granular casts and no Oxalates.
Granular casts, Calcium Carbonate,
no Oxalates.
Granular casts.
Granular casts, Carbonates and
Oxalates.
Granular casts, Carbonates and
Oxalates, bile and bile acids.
Do.
do.
Do.
do.