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Red Water

the hæmaturia in cattle, occurring occasionally in sheep.

It is of two kinds: (1) Acute, ushered in by a discharge of bloody urine, generally preceded by dysentery, suddenly changing to obstinate costiveness immediately before the red water appears. There is laborious breathing, with every indication of fever. The disease rapidly runs its course, and the beast soon succumbs. (2) Chronic, the more prevalent form. The urine is brown or yellowishbrown, the beast feeds fairly, but ruminates slowly, and after a few days a natural diarrhœa carries off the evil symptoms. Youatt considers these two forms essentially different maladies; the first, inflammation of the kidney; the second, inflammation of, or altered secretion from the liver. REED on physical geography, etc., among them "Modern Facts and Ancient Fancies in Geography"; "Climate and the Gulf Stream"; "A Treatise on the Projection of Maps"; and a Geography in 1902.

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