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A Renal Calculus
The Veterz"1Zary lournal. A RENAL CALCULUS. BY E. BOVET, ESQ., V.S., DENVER, COLORADO.
THE subj ect of this communication was a gelding which had been ailing for some two years, colic being frequently observed, the urine being tinged with blood and containing pus. The horse finally became so much emaciated as to be totally unfit for service, and consequently h e was destroyed. On post-mortem examination the left kidney was found to be reduced to a thin-walled cyst containing the calculus shown in the accompanying illustration. The calculus was sur-
rounded by a considerable quantity of ~emi-inspissated pus. The right kidn ey was markedly hypertrophied. [This calculus was interesting because of its having one end rounded and smooth-polished in fact-while the other end possessed the roughness customary to renal calculi. The following particulars are interesting: Weight, 17 ozs. ; length, 41 in.; width, 31 in.; greatest circumference, I If in. ; transverse circumference, 91 in. The history, etc., of this interesting case was communicated by T. Bowhill, Esq., F.R.C.V.S.-ED.]
THE subj ect of this communication was a gelding which had been ailing for some two years, colic being frequently observed, the urine being tinged with blood and containing pus. The horse finally became so much emaciated as to be totally unfit for service, and consequently h e was destroyed. On post-mortem examination the left kidney was found to be reduced to a thin-walled cyst containing the calculus shown in the accompanying illustration. The calculus was sur-
rounded by a considerable quantity of ~emi-inspissated pus. The right kidn ey was markedly hypertrophied. [This calculus was interesting because of its having one end rounded and smooth-polished in fact-while the other end possessed the roughness customary to renal calculi. The following particulars are interesting: Weight, 17 ozs. ; length, 41 in.; width, 31 in.; greatest circumference, I If in. ; transverse circumference, 91 in. The history, etc., of this interesting case was communicated by T. Bowhill, Esq., F.R.C.V.S.-ED.]