66 DIARRHOEA. 



If pain exists, fifteen drops of laudanum should be added to the laxative. 



The diet then should be regulated, being simple and easily digestible ; 

 milk with lime water in parts three to one, or milk porridge made with 

 flour baked until browned. If this is refused, beef broths thickened with 

 raw eggs will be more inviting. The elixir of bark pepsin and bismuth 

 should be given in teaspoonful doses before food is taken. This remedy 

 and the dietetic precautions will in many instances suffice ; even in serious 

 cases the treatment should be given a fair trial before resorting to stronger 

 medication. 



If the disease persists and more urgent methods are indicated, opium 

 should be employed. Dover's powder in five grain doses repeated every 

 five or six hours is admirable on account of its combination. If that proves 

 insufficient and pain is still a prominent symptom, the following may be 

 given.— 



R Tinct. Kino gss 



Tinct. Opii 3 i j 



Syr. Simp. gss 



Chloroformi 3 i 



Aquae Menth. Pip. Sijss 

 Ft. Mist. Sig. Dose one teaspoonful from four to six hours as indicated. 



It is quite often necessary to repeat the castor oil ; the character of the 

 discharges will direct the need. If they are of a very offensive odor then 

 a dose should be given every two or three days. 



Diarrhoea in young puppies very often occurs soon after the period of 

 weaning; changing the diet will often suffice with them. If feeding milk 

 freely, less of it should be given, beef tea for a time substituted, and vice 

 versa. In some cases liquid food, no matter how wisely selected, will be 

 but imperfectly digested and productive of diarrhoea. In such instances 

 chalk mixture, in teaspoonful doses, with the admixture of five or ten 

 drops of paregoric if pain exists, should be given. If this treatment is in- 

 effectual, then a radical change in the diet is demanded. Only solid food 

 will meet the exigency. Potatoes and other vegetables, well cooked and 

 mashed, mixed with a Jittle blood gravy from roasts, soaked bread and 

 meat, are the principle articles to be depended upon. To meet the argu- 

 ments of those who contend that flesh is an injury to dogs in general and 

 particularly to very young puppies, the writer would say that it is, and 

 has long been his custom to commence giving raw meat after the fifth 

 week. Several pounds of fresh and lean beef, in an undivided mass, are 

 thrown into the pens once a day and the puppies allowed to worry it for 

 twenty minutes; it is then removed. Their pleasure and improvement 

 must be observed to be appreciated. 



