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times settles into a dysentery, which often terminates 

 fatally. 



Cause. — Change of diet, particularly when stinted in 

 good food ; some careful housewives being so thrifty as 

 not to allow them a sufficiency of proper subsistence, 

 which nature requires at so early an age. 



Sjjmptoms. — Great weakness ; loathing of food ; 

 with continual purging ; every thing taken into the 

 stomach acidifies, or becomes sour, and coagulates 

 therein. In the last stage of the disease, the stools 

 become fetid and bloody ; a large portion of the de- 

 fensive mucus of the intestines is mixed with them ; if 

 unchecked, a gangrene or mortification ensues, and 

 terminates in the death of the animal. 



Remedy, — Give, in a little gruel, the following : 

 RECIPE No. 11. 



Tincture of rhubarb, one tablespoonfiil ; 



Laudanum, one teaspoonful. 



Or, 



RECIPE No. 12. 



Dover's powders, two scruples ; 



Compound cinnamon powder, three scruples ; 



Prepared chalk, two drams. 



Mix for one drink, and give it morning and evening as long ai 

 the purging continues. 



If there be a continual motion to dung, add to this 

 a teaspoonful of laudanum ; or, 

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