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imtation by its presence, medicine must be resorted to. 

 Administer an ounce of castor oil in gruel, adding 

 twenty drops of Laudanum if there has been straining 

 or evidences of pain. When the bowels have been 

 thoroughly/ cleared by this cathartic, it will be proper, 

 if the discharge still continue, to check it by astringents. 

 The medicine found by experience to answer best, is 

 prepared as follows : — 



Take of Logwood four ounces, 



Extract of Catechu (Japan earth) one drachra. 

 Cinnamon two drachms, 

 Water three English pints. 



Boil for a quarter of an hour, strain, and then add sixty 

 droj)S of Laudanum. Administer half an English pint 

 of this night and morning so long as the flux con- 

 tinues. 



Diarrhoea seldom proves fatal, and is indeed an easily 

 managed disease ; but as it is frequently only a symp- 

 tom of some other affection, or a critical effort of the 

 constitution to ward off some more serious mischief, the 

 attempts at stopping it should always be cautiously con- 

 ducted. 



(135.) Dysentery. — Symptoms. The pulse is quick 

 and the respirations hurried. The skin is harsh and 

 hot, and the wool in general clapped. The mouth is 

 dry, the eyes red and languid, and the ears drooping. 

 Food is taken only in small quantities and rumination 

 is stopped. The discharges from the bowels are frequent, 

 slimy, sometimes green, and a little further on in the 

 disease are mixed with blood. The belly is drawn to- 

 wards the back. It is knotted and lumpy to the touch 

 and a rumbling noise (Jborborygmus) is heard within it. 

 As a careless observer might have some difficulty in 



