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DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS. 



Treatment. In the first place, alimentation must be modified. 

 Change of alimentary substances and the feeding of more heat- 

 producing nourishment should be advised. Keeping in the open 

 air is to be preferred to stalling. The lambs especially ought to 

 *be abundantly fed ; May advises their separation from the mothers 

 after the third week, and letting them suck several times daily. 



In order to insure the disappearance of the disease in a short 

 time, it will only be necessary to separate at the beginning of the 

 trouble the first wool-eaters, as well as the first victims, from the 

 flock. Salts, alkalines, stomachics, etc., may be tried. Spinola 

 advises to keep the stables dark during the intervals between 

 meals ; but this measure seems to us irrational, and resort to it is 

 unnecessary. 



Quite recently Lemke obtained extraordinary results through 

 subcutaneous administration of chlorhydrate of apomorphine upon 

 800 sheep. The dose should be 0.1 to 0.2 gramme (consequently 

 the same as for the ox). The curative effect is said to last for 

 about four months. 



If the results obtained by apomorphine should be confirmed, 

 therapeutics will have made an enormous stride forward. It is 

 desirable that experiments be made in order to solve this inter- 

 esting question. 



ACUTE GASTRO-INTESTINAL CATARRH IN THE 



HORSE. 



Acute Catarrhal Gastro-enteritis : Acute Dyspepsia.^ 



Introduction. We shall study in this chapter catarrhal inflam- 

 mation of the stomach and of the intestine, and the morbid condi- 



1 Friedberger and Frohner devote special chapters to the study of gastro-intestinal 

 catarrh and gastro-enteritis. Gastro-intestinal catarrh is especially characterized by 

 a modification of the gastric and intestinal secretions, by an exudative process, and 

 by alterations which are generally limited to the mucous membrane. In gastro- 

 enteritis, phlegmasia is more intense, the symptoms are more marked, the anatomo- 

 pathological alterations more extended and deeper; the process spreads often to the 

 submucous connective tissue, to the muscular coating, to the subserous and even 

 serous connective tissue. The authors have undoubtedly adopted this division in 

 order to be able to introduce dyspepsias into a classification based on pathological 

 anatomy. There is no essential difi'erence between these afifections. They differ only 

 from one another by the degree of intensity of intestinal phlegmasia, and in practice 

 we may meet with all the intermediary degrees between mild gastro-intestinal catarrh 

 and very acute gastro-enteritis. — n. d. t. 



