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should be changed, and consist of bruised oats and good 

 hay, and very little water. No roots or new grass. The 

 above dose may be given once or twice a day, if required. 



DYSENTERY, COLITIS. 



Cause. — Any acrid or poisonous substance, as croton 

 oil, arsenic, and quack condition powders, have been known 

 to set up inflammation of the intestines. Long exposure to 

 cold, hard work and musty feed are also potent means to 

 inflammatory purgation. 



Symptoms. — The great abdominal pain in the begin- 

 ning of this disease is one symptom that might lead an in- 

 experienced person to mistake this disease for colic. Violent 

 evacuations from the bowels containing blood, mucus, lymph, 

 (and should it proceed to ulceration), pus, these symp- 

 toms mark the distinction between this dangerous complaint 

 and diarrhoea. There is also in this disease excessive thirst, 

 an offensive stench from the watery fluid discharged from the 

 bowels. In addition to these symptoms there is an inter- 

 mittent pulse, the face is haggard looking, and there is 

 slight tympanites. These symptoms of the complaint if 

 unrelieved speedily end in death. 



Treatment. — During the first stage of the disease give 

 the following : — 



Sulphuric ether one ounce, j 



Tincture of opium " ! ^ •, 



^ > For one dose. 



Tincture of catechu 



Linseed oil six ounces, 

 It will be necessary also to keep the quarters free from the 

 filth of the evacuations, tie up the tail, and also give injections 

 of linseed tea. Should the animal improve on the above treat- 

 ment, let the food consist of boiled oats, linseed tea and 

 gruel. If the bowels are constipated for some time after 

 recovery it is of no consequence or ground for alarm. 



