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clyster may be given. If this appear rather 

 to increase than remove the pain and irritation, 

 the dose of castor oil must be repeated, and 

 a clyster thrown up, composed onh* of water- 

 gruel and a little oil*. 



Mr. Blaine, in his Treatise on Veterinary 

 ]\Ie(Ucine, describes this disease somewhat dif- 

 ferentlv, and considers it to be the same as the 

 human dysentery. I must confess, however, 

 that daring an extensive practice often 3'ears 

 I have never met with a sin^rle case that re- 

 sembled the dysentery described by medical 

 authors. I have often observed, during the 

 progress of symptomatic fever, internal 

 iiidammation, nuicus mixed with the dung, 

 which had sometimes the appearance of part of 

 one of those longr white worms so often found 

 in the horse's bowels; at others it resembled 

 a membrane. I have observed the same 



* It is necessary on this occasion, particularly, to be careful, 

 in exhibiting the clyster, as the gut is so extreiiiely irritable and 

 tender, that if the pipe bo rough, and introduced without-cau- 

 tion, it may rather do harm than afford relief: therefore let the 

 pipe be perfectly smooth, covered with oil or lard, and not 

 forced in with violence : it is probable, that a small short tube of 

 }x)ne, about three times the bulk and length of the pipe used- 

 in human medicine, would be preferable on this occasion to that 

 commonly employed. 



