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ments of ^ the bowels. If the diarrhcea is so severe as to en- 

 danger life, an abundance of pure or boiled water should 

 be allowed in order to compensate for the loss of fluid from 

 the blood. 



Theoretically, an albuminous diet is indicated in diar- 

 rhoea because of the loss from the blood and tissues, and 

 because intestinal digestion is disordered and starchy food 

 would be undigested and cause fermentation, etc. Practi- 

 cally, a certain amount of starchy food seems to be service- 

 able in the treatment of diarrhcea. Horses and cattle should 

 be given cooked flour or barley gruel and roasted oatmeal and 

 cracked oats. Coarse foods, as bran and straw and green 

 fodder, are not allowable. Swine should be supplied with 

 gruels of boiled milk and barley, flour or oatmeal (strained). 



Fowl with diarrhcea may be fed on boiled rice and given 

 a few drops of laudanum two or three times daily. Dogs and 

 cats should, have boiled milk, boiled rice or strained rice 

 gruel, cooked lean meat and crackers. Beef juice and white 

 of egg in water are of value. Young calves, with diarrhcea, 

 should receive whey, broths and rice flour gruel. These di- 

 etaries should be employed in conjunction with other meas,- 

 v.Tes, as the preliminary use of a laxative, rest, quiet, and 

 external heat and drug treatment. Young suckling animals, 

 as foals and calves, may be fed on cooked and strained oat- 

 meal or barley gruel made with milk, if the mother's milk 

 does not agree. In severe attacks of gastro-enteritis, or in 

 gastric or intestinal ulceration with haemorrhage from the 

 stomach or bowels (after preliminary starving), the food 

 should be bland and fluid, as soaked bread, oatmeal, barley 

 ■or flour griiels, linseed tea (made by boiling linseed in a 

 muslin bag immersed in water), and small quantities of green 

 fodder for the larger animals; while milk and lime water-, 

 white of egg and water, broths and beef juice are indicated 

 for carnivora. In the latter animals we may have to resort 

 to predigested food given by the mouth, or, if vomiting is 

 •persistent, by the rectum. 



The diet in cases of catarrhal jaundice shoiild be easily 

 digestible, bland, and such as will not require much bile for 

 its digestion. The larger patients should be given gruels, 



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