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driving the aniroal very fast for a considerable distance when 

 the stomach is filled with food ; suddenly changing the diet, 

 particularly if to a kind of food which the animal seldom or 

 ever partakes ; subjecting him to cold draughts after riding or 

 driving him for a distance ; and lastly, some horses, from the 

 nature of their constitution, are predisposed to diarrhoea : such 

 are the kind termed washy horses. 



Treatment. — Without rest medicine will prove of little or 

 no avail in this disease ; if possible, then, place the patient in a 

 comfortable box, well littered with dry straw. 



The best remedies in general for this affection are — Vera- 

 trum •©- and 1, Camphor, Sesquichloride of Iron and China. 



Veratnm, ■©- and 1. — It is best to commence at once with 

 this remedy by giving 2 drachms of the -e- tincture in 5 or 6 

 ounces of tepid water, after which, use the medicine in 2-drachm 

 doses of the 1st dilution : it may be repeated every fifteen or 

 thirty minutes according to the urgency of the symptoms. It 

 is rarely, however, that more than two or three doses of the 

 drug are required. 



Oamphor. — Camphor is sometimes necessary, and succeeds 

 when Veratrum may have failed to produce the desired effect. 

 It may either be given alone or used in alternation with Vera- 

 trum. Give it in half-drachm doses, mixed with 6 or 8 ounces 

 of weak whiskey and water. 



Sesquichloride of Iron and Tincture of China -e-, — These 

 are to be given when recovery is faUy established. Give 

 the Sesquichloride of Iron in 2-drachm doses every morning, 

 mixed with 6 ounces of water ; and 3 drachms of the tincture 

 of China every night in a like quantity of water. These medi- 

 cines may be repeated morning and evening as directed for five 

 or six days in succession. 



