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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. 
Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh. 
“Friedberger & Frohner’s Pathology” (Zuill’s 
translati o) 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.—(1) 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. 
