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tated powers of digestion can manage, and hoove, or diarrhoea, or 

 dysentery, will ensue. At the best, he will rarely be got beyond fair 

 condition, and with that the farmer must be content. While there are 

 many cases of permanent recovery from dysentery, there are but few 

 cases in which the patient has afterwards grazed and fatted as well 

 as any other beast. 



However perfect may seem to be the cure, the animal that has 

 once been a decided shooter should never be bred from. There is a 

 taint about him which will almost certainly be communicated to his 

 stock. Dysentery is not only the pest of certain districts, and espe- 

 cially of cold and wet ones, but of certain breeds. But there is not 

 the slightest reason for believing that the dysentery of cattle is 

 contagious. * 



As the large intestines are the principal, and, in most cases, the 

 only seat of that inflammation which is characterized by the term 

 dysentery, other intestines are occasionally subject to maladies either 

 peculiar to them, or in which the neighboring viscera participate to a 

 greater or less extent. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — When slight, dysentery resembles severe 

 diarrhoea, and requires the remedies which have been indicated under 

 the head of the latter disease. 



After some doses of aconitum, arsenicum is to be given, especially 

 when the evacuations are liquid, or of a greenish color. However, 

 mercurius vivus is the chief remedy for this disease, more especially 

 when it occurs under an epidemic form, a thing which is not unusual 

 in spring and at the commencement of summer, when very warm 

 days alternate with cold nights. This remedy is specially indicated 

 when the gums are pale and spongy, the teeth loose, the saliva from 

 the mouth viscid and fetid, when there are frequent efforts to empty 

 the bowels, with a discharge of fetid wind, and scanty dejections 

 mixed with mucus, which presently assume a greenish gray, or a 

 brown tint, or which, accompanied with mucus and blood, pass away 

 in a liquid form after great efforts ; the belly is swollen and painful 

 to the touch, as also the lumbar region ; the rectum projects outside 

 the anus ; it becomes much inflated and extremely sensitive. 



In calves, diarrhoea, accompanied with emaciation and loss of 

 appetite, very often puts on the dysenteric character ; the animal 

 every moment passes liquid matter of a greenish or yellowish color. 

 In such a case, pulsatilla is a specific. Benefit has also been obtained 

 from chamomilla, and, when the evacuations were white, from mer- 

 curius vivus. 



COLIO. 



Of this disease there are two varieties. The one is flatulex-p 

 COLIC, arising from the distension of certam portions of the intestines^ 



