868 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



Give as one dose. Or, instead, No. 36 may be given. Dissolve 

 chlorate of pota.sli in the drinking water, as prescribed for diarrhoea. 

 Give frequent injections of starch gruel, with an ounce of tincture of 

 opium in each one. If the foeces are very offensive, give the following, 

 half of it by the mouth, and the rest as an injection : 



No. 38. % Ounce chloride of lime, 



>-2 Ounce tincture arnica, 



1 Ounce sulphuric ether, 



2 Quarts starch gruel, 

 Mix. 



Any of the astringent recipes given for diarrhoea are applicable, follow- 

 ing the administration of laxatives. Feed lightly, and nurse carefully. 



IX. Enteritis. 



This is inflammation of the digestive apparatus, and especially (as its 

 name implies) of the intestines, but is quite different from the inflam- 

 matory state of dysentery. 



Causes. — It may come from eating various poisonous substances, either 

 vegetable or mineral ; or it may follow the too sudden checking of diar- 

 rhoea. Injuries to the abdomen sometimes cause it. 



How to know it. — There is constipation, such fceces as are passed 

 being hard, dry, and coated with mucus, and sometimes offensive and 

 bloody ; high fever and quick, hard pulse ; dry mouth, with an offensive 

 fur over the tongue and cheeks ; the tliirst is insatiable ; the appetite 

 fails, and so does the milk ; rumination is suspended ; colicky pains may 

 occur, though the pain is more likely to be constant ; breathing becomes* 

 labored, and more or less tympanitis may be noticed ; the urine is scanty 

 and high colored ; the back is arched ; the animal moans, grinds his 

 teeth, and refuses to move ; the pulse gradually becomes imperceptible, 

 and the extremities cold ; and death soon follows, after an illness lastin'g 

 from one to two A\eeks. 



Post mortem appearances arc usually as follows : The first and third 

 stomachs are filled with food, dry and impacted — almost baked, and 

 when this is taken out, the epithelium of the stomachs comes off with it ; 

 the fourth stomach and bowels are inflamed ; and more or less lymph, in 

 shreds, is found, as also some ulcers, in the large intestines. The liver 

 is generally softened, and all other internal parts very much bleached, 

 indicating great wasting. 



What to do. — Give a purgative as promptly as possible. No. 26, 

 omitting the croton oil, will be the thing. Encourage the animal to drink 

 large quantities of water and other fluids, and supplement the purgative 

 with the following injection ; 



