192 VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY. 



The remedy should be repeated every four hours in doses not ex- 

 ceeding ten grains. 



Podophyllum 3X. — This remedy is more especially suitable when 

 the inflammation is located in the small intestines; the faeces will 

 be mixed, rather than coated, with blood and glairy mucus, while 

 in others marked indication of the presence of bile stain will be 

 declared; the posterior portion of the abdomen will not evince so 

 much tenderness, nor is distension from accumulated gases so 

 frequent as when the large intestines are implicated chiefly; in 

 cases that are complicated with diarrhoea at the outset, in connec- 

 tion with which there is a great deal of straining accompanied by 

 protrusion at the anus of portions of the rectal mucous membrane 

 this remedy will be found ' ' en raport. ' ' 



Lycopodium 6x. — In cases of enteritis in foals brought on by 

 partaking of indigestible food, which is accompanied b}^ consider- 

 able distension through fermentation of the ingestia and very 

 audible rumbling in the abdomen with frequent sharp pains, a 

 generally jaundiced appearance of the visible mucous membranes 

 and pronounced constipation, this remedy in the usual doses every 

 hour will soon afford relief. 



Accessory measures. — The animal must be kept perfectly 

 quiet, in a box where the temperature can be maintained at 

 an even standard, not below 60 degrees F.; during the paroxysms 

 _of pain flannels wrung out of hot water must be constantly 

 applied to the abdomen, and after the worst symptoms have passed 

 away, the abdomen must be carefully clothed with a wet compress 

 for several days. The ver}^ lightest food possible must be allowed, 

 and that only in small quantities at a time; farinaceous diet is the 

 best, with plenty of wholesome milk to drink, varied occasionally 

 with an allowance of barle}^ water and then linseed tea. 



DYSENTERY. 



This form of disease is, so far as our experience goes, rarely 

 met with in the horse; during the time we have been in practice 

 we can only recall two or three clearly-distinct cases; dysentery 

 may be described as a combination of enteritis and diarrhoea; fever 

 is always present, the faecal discharges are fluid, mixed with blood 

 and slime, and, unHke enteritis, constipation is never present; 

 dysentery, however, owes its origin to very different causes to 



