DISEASES AND AILMENTS. 



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Simple Diarrhoea — This complaint is caused through 

 the digestive system being upset by improper food or by a 

 sudden and abrupt cliange of diet; a slight chill may also 

 give rise to it. Treatment consists in keeping the animal 

 warm and comfortable, and giving it rice-water or flour-gruel 

 to drink instead of the drinking Avater. Two one-ounce doses 

 of bicarbonate of soda should be administered in the food each 

 day until the purging has ceased The allowance of corn may 





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Ije slightly reduced, and no laxative food nmst be given. Light 

 work or exercise is beneficial, but should be of a slow nature, 

 and the horse should not be taken out if the weather is very 

 wet. If the purging does not cease within a few^ days, a ball, 

 conjposed as follows, must be administered : ball — powdered 

 opium 1 drachm, powdered catechu 2 drachms, sub-nitrate of 

 bismuth 2 diachms, and sufficient treacle to make up into a 

 ball. 



