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cially, no reliance is to be placed on the calomel and opium 

 treatment in these cases. Copious draughts of linseed tea 

 and enemata must follow a brisk aloetic purge. Should the 

 purge be decidedly uncalled for by the symptoms, copi- 

 ous diluents must be had recourse to, and great benefit may 

 be derived from counter-irritants, or hot fomentations to the 

 abdomen. 



In small animals, a warm bath, injections, and demulcents, 

 such as mucilage or linseed tea, may be freely employed. In 

 the event of poisoning, special antidotes have to be pre- 

 scribed. 



ENTEKITIS EXUDATIVA. EnUrite CouenneuseoF THE FRENCH 

 Croupartige Darmentzundung OF THE GERMANS. 



Under this name may be described a form of enteritis not 

 uncommon amongst cattle, and which is characterized by the 

 production of false membranes in the small intestine. It is 

 sometimes acute, and at others chronic, commencing with 

 symptoms similar to those of ordinary colic. Within a few 

 days from the first symptoms, there is diarrhoea, and the fluid 

 foetid faeces contain shreds of lymph varying in length and 

 thickness, but attaining sometimes the enormous dimension 

 of twenty or thirty feet, and being often mistaken for worms. 

 Usually, after the discharge of these membranes, the animals 

 improve. Delafond* describes the symptoms as those of 

 irritative fever, associated with slight colicky symptoms, 

 which last for twelve or fifteen hours. The mouth is hot, 

 muzzle dry, conjunctiva injected, respiration short and con- 

 vulsive; pulse small, frequent, and soft; the vertebral column 

 is very sensitive; belly tense, tender, and often tympanitic; 



* Beceuil deMddecine Vet&rinaire, 1842, page 217. 



