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Homceopathic treatment. — The cure of diarrhoea is effected by 

 diflferent means. In the diarrhoea which bursts out suddenly, or the 

 acute form, we should commence with a couple of doses of aconitum 

 at short intervals ; after which, in most cases, arsenicum and ipeca- 

 cuanha are very eflfectual. The diarrhoea brought on by cold often 

 yields to aconitum alone, as that resulting from any irregularity in 

 diet yields to arsenic. If in the latter case there be also loss of 

 appetite, and if arsenic does not effect a cure, pulsatilla should Idc 

 given, or when there is an absolute repugnance to food, antimonium 

 crudum, especially when the diarrhoea alternates periodically with 

 constipation. If there be frequent dejections without pain, we have 

 recourse to rheum. Asarum is useful, if the evacuations are fluid, 

 and sometimes mixed with bloody mucus. 



In the treatment of chronic diarrhoea, besides china, sulphur, cha- 

 momilla, and veratrum, which has been found useful more than once, 

 we should employ acidum yhosphoricum, hryonia, calcarea acetica, 

 dulcamara, magnesia carhonica, petroleum, and phosphorus. Diarrhoea 

 is usually accompanied with a general morbid state, with respect to 

 which we are to choose, among these several means, that which suits 

 best. Sulphur aad arsenicum are the^rincipal remedies for diarrhoea 

 in calves. 



When slight, dysentery resembles severe diarrhoea, and requires 

 the remedies which have been indicated under the head of the lattei 

 disease. 



In calves, diarrhoea, accompanied with emaciation and loss of appe- 

 tite, very often puts on the dysenteric character ; the animal every 

 moment passes liquid matter of a greenish or yellowish color. In such 

 case, Pulsatilla is a specific. Benefit has also been obtained from 

 chamomilla, and, when the evacuations were white, from mercwrius 

 vivus. 



HOOSE. 



A sufficiently alarming view has been given of this disease in adult 

 cattle, but calves are even more subject to it ; it takes on in them a 

 more dangerous character, and more speedily terniinates in wasting 

 and in death. Hoose often assumes an epidemic form in cattle of a 

 twelvemonth old and upward; it often appears as an epidemic among 

 calves, and carries off great numbers of them. The treatment recom- 

 mended for grown cattle under the article Hoose, in p. 248, (fee, 

 should, with such deviation as the difi"erent age and situation of the 

 beast require, be adopted here. The bleeding, perhaps, should not 

 be carried to so great an extent, and even somewhat more attention 

 should be paid to the comfort of the animal. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — That which is at first dull and hollow, 

 excited by the least efi'ort, and more particularly violent after the 

 animal has drunk, generally indicates a more or less serious aflfectioQ 



