Concerning Diseases of Cats 



Cats are quite as often troubled with diarrhoea as with 

 constipation. Too much liver or fat meat will bring it on, 

 or even exposure to wet or cold. If it continues, the cat 

 will grow thin and emaciated, and end in death by dysentery. 

 In such cases, put the cat in a warm room, with a box of 

 fresh earth or sand and a comfortable bed. First give her 

 a scant half-teaspoonful of castor oil, and six or eight hours 

 afterward repeat the dose, with two drops of laudanum added 

 to it. Follow up this treatment with a teaspoonful, three 

 times a day, of chalk mixture, with half a drop of laudanum 

 in each dose. 



If a cat gives indications of poison, by frequent attacks 

 of vomiting and refusing nearly all food for any length of 

 time, a grain of tris-nitrate of bismuth on the tongue once 

 or, in extreme cases, twice a day will give relief. A milk 

 and fish diet should be used unless there is great emaciation, 

 when raw beef, cut or scraped fine, may be given. 



Cod-liver oil may be given for consumption, two or three 

 times a day, in teaspoonful doses. 



Cats are subject to fits of various kinds, — caused by too 

 heavy diets, or by the opposite. If the cat is fat and over- 

 fed, the diet plainly should be lowered, giving milk, fish, 

 and vegetables, with liver three times a week. If the cat is 

 thin and emaciated, a strengthening diet should be given, 

 with plenty of raw meat cut fine, milk, and cod-liver oil twice 

 a day. In cases of extreme exhaustion or emaciation, 

 occasional doses of port wine are useful, given in scant tea- 

 spoonful quantities. 



A few grains of common alum in warm water, used to 

 wash out a cat's inflamed eyes once an hour, is a simple and 

 effectual cure. 



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