weeks of life. The ahine discharges are at first of a yellowish-white colour,, 

 and there is little or no pain. In more advanced stages there is more or less 

 abdominal pain, which may be very severe. If the disease continues, the 

 foal ceases to suck, and loses flesh rapidly. The prognosis is usually very 

 favourable in ordinary cases of diarrhoea, but in the infantile variety a fatal 

 termination is not uncommon. 



We should, before treating diarrhoea, in the first place, endeavour to 

 ascertain its cause. If it proceed from irregularities in the feeding, or in the 

 work, these should be immediately rectified. In most instances medicine is 

 not required, unless the diarrhoea is excessive, or the pain and general- 

 disturbance very great. No cold water should be allowed on any account, 

 and the animal should be kept quiet, and warmly clad. The food should be 

 easily digestible, and linseed gruel or other demulcent drinks may be allowed. 

 Where there is very great pain, a drench composed of one ounce of tincture 

 of opium, one ounce of spirit of chloroform with a drachm of camphor, may 

 be given three times daily in flour gruel. When prostration is very marked, 

 and the pain severe, one ounce of tincture of opium, one ounce of sulphuric 

 ether, and one ounce of spirit of chloroform may be given three times daily, 

 with a moderate amount of alcoholic stimulant, such as brandy or whiskey. 

 Woollen cloths wrung out from warm water may be applied frequently to the 

 belly, and stimulating liniments rubbed in during the intervals between the 

 applications. In treating diarrha'a in young foals, it is well to commence by 

 giving three ounces of castor oil, in order to expel the irritant matter in the 

 intestines. With the castor oil, two drachms of sulphuric ether may begiven. 

 This treatment may be followed up by the administration of camphor and 

 opium, with spirit of chloroform three times a day in water, or in strong 

 decoction of tea. Each drench may contain of camphor, twenty grains ; 

 tincture of opium, two drachms ; spirit of chloroform, three drachms ; liquid 

 extract of bael fruit, six drachms ; and water to four ounces. When 

 weakness is veiy marked, a little alcoholic stimulant may be added, and the' 

 hot cloths and stimulating liniments applied to the abdomen. 



RUPTURE OF THE INTESTINES. 



Rupture of the walls of the gut is of more frequent occurrence in the large 

 than in the small intestines, and is due in most cases to impaction of excreta. 

 or to excessive accumulation of wind, or to both these conditions together. 



It will easily be seen that these disorders are especially liable to result 

 when the walls of the gut are in an unhealthy condition. The symptoms of 

 rupture are very variable and not characteristic. In most cases rapid 

 exhaustion follows the intestinal rupture, wherever it may be situated. In 

 some cases, collapse and death soon follow the occurrence ; while in others, 

 life is not extinguished for several days. In many cases, rupture is difficult 

 to diagnose from several other severe aftections of the bowels. Sometimes, 

 when following impaction of the excreta in the large bowel, or great 



