204 DlABBHBA, OB SKIT IN CALVES. 



sudden change from dry to wet weather, or severe 

 exertion in hot dry weather. 



SYMPTOMS. The disease comes on slowly with 

 staring coat, shaking, arched back, fore-legs drawn 

 together, cold legs, ears, and horns, weak pulse, 

 tucked up belly, bowels rather looser than usual, de- 

 ficient appetite. The animal becomes thinner, more 

 depressed and dull; little or no milk is given, and 

 the bowels are purged to an alarming extent. This 

 purging may stop, and then reappear to end fatally, 

 or terminate in dysentery. 



TREATMENT. We should, of course, give food not. 

 so loosening in its character, and the SPECIFIC for 

 DIARRHEA, F F, a dose of twenty drops, two or three 

 times per day, will usually be found quite sufficient. 

 In extreme cases, or in case of failure with this rem- 

 edy, the SPECIFIC for ULCERS, I I, may be alternated 

 with it, at the same or even more frequent intervals. 



Diarrhea, or Skit in Calves. 



This disease is quite common, and sometimes 

 dangerous. It may be produced by sudden change 

 of food, too much or too little food, or from some 

 peculiarity in the mother's milk, It may sometimes 

 be the natural means of throwing off something that 

 is injurious to the calf, and hence it would be im- 

 proper to arrest it. Only when the animal becomes 

 weak, is off its food, does not chew the cud, when 

 there are pains in the belly, or the dung is slimy or 

 mixed with blood, or the discharge is like cream, 



