Enteritis] l ®7 [Enteritis 



Treatment: In the acute form a small dose 

 of castor oil mixed with from two to fifteen 

 drops of laudanum, 1 and repeated in two or three 

 days if necessary. If there is diarrhoea, give 

 from three 1 to fifteen grains of carbonate of 

 bismuth three or four times a day ; also from 

 two to ten drops of chlorodyne x in water three 

 or four times a day ; when there is much pain 

 hot linseed meal poultices may be applied to the 

 abdomen. The diet should consist principally 

 of milk — plain or with Benger's food — a little 

 meat juice may be added. Later, scraped lean 

 raw meat may be given. 



The treatment of chronic cases is tedious, a 

 cure is often difficult, and under the best circum- 

 stances it takes many weeks of careful dieting 

 before improvement occurs. 



The following powders to be given with or 

 after food : — 



Recipe : 



Ingluvin, ----- i drachm. 



Carbonate Bismuth, - - - 2 drachms. 

 Powdered Nux Vomica, - - 6 grains. 

 Mix. 



Divide into 12, 24, or 48 powders 1 — one to 

 be given three times a day. 



The diet should consist principally of unboiled 

 milk, given plain or with Benger's food, or beaten 

 up with the white of an egg t and the quantity of 

 course must vary according to the size of the 



1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



