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have diphtheria, which they often get from children by whom they are 
fondled. Give belladonna and mercurius, and wrap the throat up in flannel 
wet with cosmoline; or tie a strip of pork around the throat. If it is diph- 
theria, the same treatment will be ample, with a few grains of sulphite of 
soda in water. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 
This is often caused by cats eating food that has been poisoned. If 
you are sure it is arsenic, give a few drops of peroxide of iron, or dialized 
iron, every half-hour. The symptoms are constant vomiting and retching, 
with great thirst. If it isnot from arsenic, give a few pellets or a powder 
of arsenicum, third trituration, every hour or two. If this fails, give a 
grain or two of sub-nitrate of bismuth, dry on the tongue, every hour: 
But do not forget that all the symptoms of this disease are often caused by 
worms, and then nothing but santonine will save life. 
DIARRHEA. 
Diarrhoea is generally caused by irregular or excessive feeding, or ex- 
posure to wet and cold. Fat meat, or too much liver or oysters will cause 
it. Itsoon reduces the cat to a skeleton, and will end in dysentery and death. 
If caused by improper food, give pulsatilla and a diet of boiled milk, 
or no food at all, for a day or two. A few grains of bismuth will often 
avert it. If it comes from a cold, give mercurius, second trituration. If it 
is chronic and obstinate, give the following prescription: 
B Tinc. opii, one drachm. 
Castor oil, one ounce. 
Aromatic syrup rhubarb, one ounce. 
Emulsion, two ounces. 
Mix. 
Give one-half or one teaspoonful every two hours. In all severe cases of 
illness, put the cat in an empty room, not too cold, with a warm bed in it, 
and a box of sand. 
DYSENTERY. 
Dysentery is an inflammation of the mucous lining of the intestines. It 
is attended by fever, pain in the bowels, crying and discharge of white or 
bloody slime, with straining. 
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