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to be given ; glycerine in water, oil, soap-suds, are all 

 useful. The mother should receive laxative diet. Should 

 constipation arise in the young animal from any other 

 cause, similar treatment should be adopted. 



Oastro-Intestinal Catarrh. 



"Friedberger & Frohner's Pathology" (Zuill's 

 translation) says : " By its etiology, its course and 

 treatment, gastro-intestinal catarrh of young animals 

 differs essentially from the same affection in adults. It 

 has often been confounded with dysentery and described 

 under this name ; but it must be distinguished from it." 



Causes. — (i) Diseases of the mother, the alimenta- 

 tion of the mother influencing the condition of the 

 milk ; certain medicinal substances mixed with the milk, 

 irritating the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane ; over 

 fatigue of the mother influencing the quality of the milk. 

 Zuill remarks, that one of the most common causes of 

 this disease among young animals on American farms 

 is the careless and irregular manner in which they are 

 fed. Kept for long periods without food while the 

 mother is at work, they are allowed to take an unlimited 

 quantity of milk furnished while the dam is overheated 

 .and fatigued. This is one of the reasons why so many 

 ■of our animals are suffering from a chronic form of this 

 ■disease. If the young animals are not nursing, they 

 are allowed to take an overabundance of milk or other 

 food, thus producing indigestion of the abomasum, — a 

 common disease among Calves. 



2. When the young animals are fed irregularly, at 

 the time their mothers are used for work. 



