60 DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 



gles. Fever aiid a continual pain, with great rest- 

 lessness and an anxious expression from beginning 

 to end, will enable us to form a correct opinion be- 

 tween inflammation of the bowels and spasmodic 

 colic. Treatment: Give powdered opium, two 

 drains; tincture of aconite root, twenty to thirty 

 drops, every two or three hours in a little gruel 

 Calomel in one dram doses twice a day is useful. 

 Injections of simple hot water may be tried, but if 

 it increases the pain, it should not be persevered 

 with. Blankets wrung out of boiling water and ap- 

 plied to the sides are useful, if well done; but on 

 account of the restlessness of the animal this can- 

 not be done with satisfaction. Mustard applied to 

 the belly is better. 



Diarrhoea is caused by animals eating mushy 

 food and grasses on low, marshy lands, too much 

 green food when the animal is not used to it, driv- 

 ing after eating a large quantity of soft food, 

 drinking bad water, and from a deranged condi- 

 tion of some other organs of the body. Diarrhoea 

 is often an effort to rid the system of some dele- 

 terious substance from the body. Symptoms: 

 The frequent evacuations of liquid faeces. In some 

 cases there is pain and in others it is absent. If 

 it is continuous for some time, there will be loss of 

 appetite and emaciation. The discharge varies 

 very much; sometimes the animal will pass enor- 

 mous quantities of very liquid faeces; and in a 

 case of this kind, it requires to be stopped as soon 

 as possible or it will soon exhaust the animal by 

 removing too much liquid from the system. On 



