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cold to heat. When, either from a dearness of food, 

 or scarcity, the animal is kept on short allowance, it is 

 a wise plan, when the luxuriance of spring arrives, to 

 continue feeding the animal in the straw-yard, or 

 house, upon a mixture of chopped hay and succulent 

 grass, for a short time previous to turning him out to 

 the field. 



It is not uncommon for calves at the time of 

 weaning to be affected with diarrhoea, which at this 

 tender age should be stopped by 



Prepared chalk . . . .2 ounces, 

 Gruel composed of flour and milk i quart ; 



to be given every six hours, until the symptoms are 

 arrested. But if in two days evident signs of a cure 

 are not visible, to the above must be added a drachm 

 of powdered ginger, and one drachm of laudanum. 



DYSENTERY. 



SYMPTOMS. This is a dangerous malady, and some- 

 times is very deadly. Long-continued purging induces 

 loss of flesh and general weakness ; and so reduced is 

 the muscular fibre, in many instances, that the skin 

 may be seen hanging like a loose garment about their 

 bodies. In other instances the animal is hide-bound ; 

 the hair changes its colour to sandy or grey ; the eyes 

 grow pale ; they eject a thin and slimy matter ; and their 

 pulse is weak and irregular : the excrements often 

 change colour, more particularly in the earlier stages 

 of the complaint. In the more advanced stages of the 

 malady, the faeces appear like food half-masticated, as 

 it passes through the stomach and intestines without 

 undergoing the ordinary digestive process. If the 

 animal is pressed on either side of the spine, immediately 

 behind the shoulders, after a long continuance of 



