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into the chest, thus preventing that cavity from expanding. 

 The period for the duration of the disorder is, however, 

 generally longer than in enteritis. 



The treatment is much the same as for enteritis. The 

 only difference is, that the animal will lose more blood 

 before he displays any symptom of uneasiness. We may 

 also be more bold with purgatives. The three ounces of 

 solution of aloes may be increased to five, the pint of oil 

 enlarged to a pint and a half, and if this produces no signs 

 of its having acted on the bowels, it may even be repeated 

 when another three hours and a half has elapsed : all the 

 other measures are alike in both cases. 



INFLAMED BOWELS IN NEAT CATTLE. 



This disease is not unfrequent among kine. The enteritis 

 of horned cattle presents symptoms which do not materially 

 differ from those displayed by horses ; neither in all essen- 

 tial particulars is any variation in the proper treatment 

 necessary. There is, however, one material distinction, the 

 bowels are never wholly costive, but small portions of liquid 

 fseces are ejected with much straining. Opening the bowels 

 freely, however, is essential. The disease mainly depends 

 on the clogged or hardened state of the ingesta in the 

 many-plus, and this must be got rid of The drink pre- 

 scribed for horses may be given, only substituting a pound 

 of Epsom salts for the aloes. This may even be repeated. 

 If the double dose does not act, give half a pound of sul- 

 phur, and half an ounce of cream of tartar, with an ounce 

 of sulphuric ether. If that, after being again tried, has no 

 effect, next try linseed oil one pint and a half, with a 

 drachm of chloroform ; and this likewise may be repeated ; 

 for the bowels, at all expense, must be forced open. In 

 the mean time, give half a drachm of calomel, and a drachm 

 of opium, every hour ; stimulate the belly, &c. ; in fact, the 

 other directions may be taken from those which have already 

 been given for the horse, under the head of Enteritis. 



The injiamed purging state is likewise not unfrequent 

 among cattle ; and derives its origin less from any exteiyial 

 irritant than from a diseased condition of the natural ex- 

 citer of the bowels — the bile ; to which disease they are 

 found pecuharly liable. The curative plan must be the 



