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nature, that whatever affects the bowels of the mother 

 will also affect the colt through the milk it derives, 

 though more seriously; for the colt must now, and 

 until it be able to masticate food, depend altogether on 

 the parent's milk, and the latter cannot furnish it in 

 sufficient quantities unless kept on generous food. 



Treatment. — Our first duty is to atteucl to the 

 wants of the mother — establish her health if it be 

 impaired. 



Stock raisers might learn a lesson from nurses who 

 attend human parturients — they give the old-fashioned 

 dose of castor oil understandingly, knowing from long 

 experience that it operates both on the mother and 

 child. 



The milk of the mother, immediately after parturi- 

 tion, is the best kind of medicine to regulate the 

 secretions and excretions of the offspripg, and it 

 generally has the desu-ed effect. There may, however, 

 be cases where, in consequence of exposure, the foal 

 may have diarrhoea, if so, it must be placed in a 

 wai-m situation. Perhaps all that will now be needed 



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