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three times a-day, until symptoms of recovery are ap- 

 parent : — 



Is'^itre, ground into a fine powder, 1 drachm ; 

 made into a ball with treacle and lintseed-meal. If the 

 feverish symptoms still remain, it will be necessary again to 

 have recourse to bleeding. It will be found of much im- 

 portance to sprinkle the animal's food with salt. The food 

 should consist of cut grass or turnips ; and if the complaint 

 attacks the animal in the winter, green food should be 

 occasionally given, if possible. 



DIARRHOEA, OR LOOSENESS. 



Symptoms. — This disease and dysentery have frequently 

 been confounded, although they are sufficiently different in 

 their characters. Diarrhoea consists in an unusual discharge 

 from the mucous vessels of the intestines, and is always 

 accompanied by pain, gripings, and frequent stools, but 

 unaccompanied by fever ; nor is there any blood or slime : 

 it almost always occurs in the spring; weak sheep and hogs 

 being most liable to its attacks. In this disease there is 

 only a temporary or partial wasting of the flesh, while in 

 dysentery a rapid diminution of the muscular fibre takes 

 place. It frequently improves the general health of the 

 animal. 



Cause. — Sudden changes from poor to rich pasturage ; 

 and bad food will induce it. 



Remedies. — It is not prudent to stop this disease too 

 rapidly ; but it is equally wrong to allow it to continue too 

 long, as, if the discharge is either too long continued, or the 

 purging very copious, it brings on great debility. If 

 caused by change from dry to moist food, then it will 

 be proper to resume the dry feeding for a time, which will 

 generally efiect a cure within a few days. 



