THE CAT AND ITS DISEASES. - 8638 
Give aconite and mercurius, with colocynth if there is colic. If this 
fails, use the prescription given above for chronic Diarrhea. A grain or 
two of powdered ipecac every two hours will be needed if the discharges 
are green and very bloody, 
BRONCHITIS AND CONSUMPTION. 
Cats are very subject to bronchitis, especially pet cats, if they are 
exposed to cold and wet. It begins with symptoms of a common cold, 
such as staring coat, shivering, and slight cough. The cat becomes very ill 
for a day or two with the acute stage, which soon passes into the chronic 
form. There is then difficulty of breathing; the cat is constantly coughing, 
with the tongue hanging over the lower lip; she has an anxious expression 
about the face, and her eyes are watery and filled with matter; she gets 
thinner and moons about, refusing all food, or at times eating voraciously, 
with depraved appetite. 
Confine the cat to the house, ina warm room; feed her on beef-tea and 
bread, or milk and arrowroot-gruel. If she is constipated, give a small tea- 
spoonful of castor or sweet oil, and prepare a mixture as follows: In half a 
glass of water put one drop of Fowler’s Solution of arsenic, and five drops of 
tincture of gelseminum. Give a teaspoonful of this every hour until the 
feverish or acute. stage has passed. If you have homeopathic remedies, 
give a small powder of arsenicum (third) and six pellets of gelseminum 
(first), alternately one hour apart. 
After the acute stage has passed into the chronic, and the cough is 
wheezy and frequent, give five drops of syrup of squills every two hours 
or six pellets of pulsatilla (second), alternated with hepar sulphur (third), 
two hours apart. In bad cases, with very difficult breathing and painful 
cough, give a small powder of tartar emetic, second trituration, alternated 
with six pellets of phosphorus, the third. If the cat is left with a cough, 
and grows thin and weak, give half a teaspoonful of pure cod-liver oil three 
times aday. This generally acts like a charm, and the cat soon recovers her 
strength and flesh. 
Consumption often results from neglected bronchitis and needs only 
good care, freedom from exposure, a diet of raw meat, and cod-liver oil. 
DISTEMPER OR YELLOWS. 
Lady Cust, writing of diseases of cats, says:—“This is different from 
distemper in dogs. It rarely’ occurs but once, and is a dangerous disorder. 
It begins with constant vomiting of bright-yellow, frothy liquid. Diarrhea. 
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