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the other hand, if it is not severe, more time can be 

 given. Treatment: Find the cause, if possible. 

 If it is from faulty food 1 or water, change these and 

 little more is needed. If from a change of food or 

 indigestible food, give one and one-half pints to 

 one quart of raw linseed oil and two drams of the 

 fluid extract of belladonna in it at one dose. After 

 this has operated, if it does not stop, give one dram 

 powdered opium, one dram camphor, made into a 

 ball. Repeat in four hours if necessary. Or give 

 powdered opium one dram, powdered catechu two 

 drams, made into a ball or put in a quart of starch 

 gruel; or give one dram opium and a tablespoon- 

 ful of chalk in starch gruel. Sometimes ginger, 

 gentian, and chalk, a tablespoonful of each, given 

 in a quart of starch gruel, every three hours, will 

 stop it. If the discharge is of the severe kind and 

 very watery, give two drams of powdered opium 

 and one dram of acetate of lead in a ball or in 

 starch gruel, and repeat every two hours until it 

 stops; feed on good oats and hay, in. small quan- 

 tities for a few days. This treatment is for cattle 

 as well as horses. 



Dysentery may be of two kinds; what is 

 called bloody flux, when there is considera- 

 ble blood mixed with the faeces. This form is ac- 

 companied by ulceration and is the most danger- 

 ous. The other form is a discharge of mucous 

 with the faeces, accompanied by great straining. 

 Causes: Inflammation of the mucous membrane 

 of the bowels often resulting in dysentery, espe- 

 cially in cattle; exposure to cold, coarse, innutri- 



