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ling quadrupeds. I have never seen thickening or exuda- 

 tions. 



In adult animals the cadaveric lesions vary according to 

 the immediate cause of the frequent alvine evacuations. 

 Ramified redness or signs of determination of blood may be 

 detected whenever an irritant operates locally, but this is 

 often not more than the turgid condition of the intestinal 

 mucous membrane when in active secretion. Disease of the 

 liver, or of other parts of the digestive apparatus, may exist, 

 as well as fluid and scanty contents in the intestine. 



Treatment In all animals great advantage is experienced 

 from the employment of warm water injections. It is true 

 that purgative and medicated injections are frequently called 

 for, but as a bland and useful aid to almost any kind of 

 treatment, I must, in the first place, refer to warm water 

 clysters. 



Should any irritant be keeping up the diarrhoea, it 

 should be expelled by means of purgatives, diminishing 

 the food, and allowing the animal little to drink and little 

 exercise. Purgatives must not be too much used in this 

 complaint, and when the irritant substances supposed to 

 exist in the bowels must have been expelled from the free 

 action of a cathartic, it may be necessary to resort to the 

 very opposite treatment of opiates and astringents. 



In cattle, cases of simple diarrhoea are sometimes very 

 difficult to treat, and unless the disease is simply due to a 

 slight cause, such as a change of pasture, great benefit ap- 

 pears to have been derived, especially in the early stages of 

 the disorder, from giving the following medicine : 

 Calomel . . . . . 1 dr. 

 Opium . . . . . 1 dr. 



In thick gruel, and repeated after forty-eight hours if the 

 looseness is not checked. 



