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complaints covered by such an all-embracing term as 

 ' enteritis.' 



The statement with which I have headed this section 

 would then need qualification. Recovery from the 

 limited enteritis attending other and less dangerous forms 

 of colic is not only possible, but a matter of every-day 

 occurrence. 



On the other hand, resolution in a case of ' intestinal 

 septicajmia,' if I may, for a moment, be allov/ed to so 

 call enteritis, will occur with about the same frequency 

 as recoveries from the intestinal forms of anthrax. 

 Knowing that, the practitioner will appreciate my 

 statement, ' enteritis offers but little hope of recovery,' 

 at its true value. 



Treatment. — I must confess myself to looking upon 

 this as hopeless. Once established, I do not think that 

 enteritis — at any rate the enteritis I have described — is 

 in the slightest degree affected by anything we may pour 

 into the animal's body. Though not affecting the issue 

 of the case, humanity points to a manifest duty. It 

 should be our care to render, if possible, any aid that will 

 mitigate the animal's sufferings. To that end, the most 

 potent anodynes and sedatives should be employed. 

 Even should we succeed in inducing a state of delirious 

 drunkenness, that is manifestly better than allowing the 

 patient to succumb in agonizing tortures. 



Should the practitioner deem this advice too dogmatic, 

 and conscientiously feel that other remedial measures 

 should be attempted, he will find plenty to his hand in 

 other and well-known volumes. Personally, I do not 

 think that our knowledge of the etiology of this disorder 

 justifies us in thrusting upon the already tortured animal 

 drugs the action of which, in this particular instance, 

 must be highly problematical. This is one case in which 



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