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tonic. The dose is about 3ogr. of the powdered yellow 

 cinchona bark. This medicine is also best given in gruel. 

 I have heard that port wine and cayenne pepper are a 

 capital mixture for diarrhoea, and though I have never 

 tried it, I should think it would act well in mild cases. 

 Nitrate of silver I have used with very good results in 

 bad cases when the motions are accompanied with blood, 

 constituting dysentery, the dose being a grain and a half 

 to two grains twice <a day. It is best given as a pill or 

 bolus made with bread-crumbs." 



When the diarrhoea stage is not arrived at, Professor 

 Axe relies entirely on iron to strengthen the system and 

 give tone to the blood. He prescribes sulphate of iron 

 in doses of 5gr. each twice a day in water. I have 

 added to this a small quantity of sulphate of quinine 

 when the appetite has been very bad, and found it of 

 great service. The best plan is to procure three or four 

 8oz. bottles, and put 2sc. of the iron crystals and -|sc. of 

 the quinine into each bottle, giving i fluid oz. of the 

 solution which must be shaken occasionally for a 

 dose. 



FEEDING. Feeding a goat with this disease is diffi- 

 cult ; like ourselves in illness, it will often eagerly devour 

 the very articles that it should not have, and refuse what is 

 good for it. It will rarely, however, eat much of any- 

 thing. All green fodder should, of course, be withheld 

 when diarrhoea is present, though it will generally be 

 taken readily when offered, probably for the sake of the 

 change. Hay must constitute its chief food, and although 

 clover will often be preferred, good meadow hay I con- 

 sider best, as the woody fibre in the sticks of clover must 

 of necessity be more indigestible. I have had goats with 

 this disease which for a long time subsisted on nothing but 

 hay and bread and milk, taking the latter most readily; 

 they would each drink a quart or more of milk in a 



