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the animals will then refuse all food. Diarrhea occurring in 

 cattle after feeding green sugar beet leaves- can be stopped rap- 

 idly by giving rough feed, particularly hay in the morning as an 

 alternating meal. Sick swine must be fed with flour, rice flour, 

 germinated malt, linseed, bread soups, roasted oat or barley 

 flour, roasted chestnuts, rice, sago, boiled oatmeal with fat, meat 

 broth with the yolk of eggs or a variety of artificial foods (see 

 page 291). After the diarrhea has been stopped, finely chopped 

 meat or fowl meat may be added to the enumerated food stuffs 

 or the patients may receive a mash of crushed barley, rice, etc., 

 to which has been added some fat and salt. Rabbits should re- 

 ceive roasted oats, young twigs of oaks or willow, also burnt 

 flour soup, thick flour paste with roasted rye bread. The follow- 

 ing are adapted for fowl: millet, rice, corn and other grains, 

 boiled or worked into a mash with the addition of powdered 

 chalk; also roasted and finely crushed barley, and infusion of 

 half an ounce of oatmeal boiled in one quart of water, or one part 

 of linseed boiled in twenty parts of water; parrots do well on 

 clioeolate or on bread moistened with claret. The ingestion of 

 water must be limited and the animals must not receive it cold, 

 but water which has been standing for some time. 



Since acute intestinal catarrh generally follows errors of 

 diet, the removal of the gastro-intestinal contents is indi- 

 cated ; this diminishes the amount of the irritating material al- 

 ready in the gastro-intestinal tract, removes a culture soil for 

 excessively multiplying intestinal bacteria and to a certain ex- 

 tent brings about a disinfection of the intestines. If the noxious 

 material is prol)al)]y still in the stomach then lavage of the latter 

 or the use of emetics may be indicated. The treatment of dis- 

 turbances of gastric functions, if at all present, must follow the 

 principles laid down above (see page 291). To remove the nox- 

 ious or abnormally fermenting contents of the intestines mild 

 laxatives should be emploved ; the best drug is probably castor 

 oil 250-500 gm. to horses;^ 500-1000 gm. to cattle; 50-200 gm. to 

 calves, foals, sheep and goats ; 50-100 gm. to hogs ; 15-50 gm. to 

 dogs ; 5-20 gm. to cats ; to rabbits and birds 5-15 gm. To horses 

 and cattle castor oil is administered with the double dose of hot 

 water or with the same or the double dose of a bland oil (oil of 

 sesame, oil of poppies, etc.) ; to the dose for horses may also be 

 added 50-70 grams of ether; this makes the oil light-fluid; for 

 dogs and cats the oil may be emulsified with one-fifth gum arabic 

 and five to ten parts of water or with aqua menthae, tinctura 

 aurantii, succus citri, etc., or in gelatin capsules (3-10 at 5 grams 

 each) ; to the hog in the form of an electuary with licorice or 

 honey ; for fowls a mixture with equal parts of water should be 

 injected directly into the esophagus with a syringe armed at its 

 tip with a flexible tube ; or small pieces of stale bread soaked in 

 castor oil are introduced into the pharynx of fowls (Schlampp). 

 According to the experiments of F. Miiller calomel has a laxative 

 effect only in dogs (0.3-0.4 gm.), cats (0.1-0.15 gm.), rabbits (0.2 



