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attack. Stimulants should, however, be applied to the 

 bowels, as in inflammation of the intestines, properly so 

 called. The stable and the clothing also should be warm, 

 and means should be taken to keep up the circulation in 

 the extremities by hand-rubbing and bandaging. The 

 following drink may be given every two hours : 



Prepared chalk 

 Laudanum 

 Liquor potassse 

 Tincture of catechu 

 Tincture of ginger 

 Tincture of capsicums 

 Water . 



Mr. Spooner's prescription is more s 



Powdered opium .... 1 drachm. 

 Powdered catechu ... 2 drachms. 



Prepared chalk .... 1 ounce. 

 In thick gruel made from wheaten flour, or in boiled 

 starch. 



1 ounce. 



2 ounces. 

 1 ounce. 

 J ounce. 



1 ounce. 



2 drachms. 

 1 pint. 



mple: 



Throw up frequent injections of rice-water, and have 

 a pail of thin cold gruel in the manger, which, however, 

 should be repeatedly changed, though most likely the 

 poor animal will drain it almost as fast as it can be 

 prepared. 



The reader is referred to the preceding section under the 

 heads Diarrlioea and Costiveness. 



STRANGULATION OF THE BOWELS. 



Strangulation, intervagination, volvulus, or intus-suscep- 

 tion — for by these names a twisting, knotting, or unnatural 

 torsion of the bowels is called — is more frequent than has 

 been supposed, fatal cases of this disorder having been 

 often treated as colic, and post-^nortem examination 

 neglected. 



Intus- or Intro-susception means the slipping of one 

 portion of intestine into another — commonly into the one 

 behind it. In the human subject, especially in children, 

 this appears to be an accident by no means uncommon, and 



