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ide and the diet restricted to diluted milk, egg 

 albumin, or beef tea. 



Food should not be forced on the patient in 

 the early stages of the disease or until the stom- 

 ach has quieted down to some extent but food 

 should be given when the vomiting has been 

 more or less controlled. 



The after treatment consists in a well regu- 

 lated non-irritant diet such as Jjoiled fish and 

 milk, a little finely scraped raw meat or boiled 

 liver. To keep the bowels in a fairly relaxed 

 condition, should constipation supervene as it 

 sometimes does, sardines and oil should be 

 given if the patient wiU accept them. 



CONTAGIOUS GASTRO-ENTERITIS. 



As before stated the pathological entity of 

 this disease is questioned by some authorities 

 who claim that it is only a phase of feline dis- 

 temper. However closely these two diseases 

 may be related theoretically the clinical pic- 

 tures are so different, that in view of the fact 

 that the actual etiological factor of neither has 

 been isolated, it seems to be more practical to 

 separate them, until such times as it is defi- 

 nitely decided to which category they belong. 

 Since Boucek isolated an ovoid bacillus clearly 

 of the hemorrhagic septicemia type while in- 

 vestigating an outbreak of what appeared to 

 be contagious gastro-enteritis, further investi- 



