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regular intervals. The calves must not be weaned before four 

 or six weeks, and the lambs after three or four months only ; 

 weaning must be gradual, and heavy, irritating food must be 

 avoided. 



Diarrhea should be counteracted with roasted bread soups, 

 browned flour, malt, coffee, raw eggs, gelatin-water, mucilage of 

 marshmallow or gum, ginger seeds, poppy, almond milk, decoctions 

 of hops, poppy-heads, etc. When the intestine is full of fermented 

 or decomposing matter, a light laxative may be administered ; for 

 the calf, two or three spoonfuls of castor-oil or some other sweet 

 oil ; 25 to 30 grammes of sulphate of soda or of magnesia in a 

 mucilaginous decoction ; for the lamb, one-fourth of these doses. 



Carbonates of magnesia and soda have been recommended to 

 counteract intestinal fermentations ; also chalk, bone powder (a tea- 

 spoonful to a tablespoonful). Creosote could also be tried (3 to 5 

 drops for a calf, a half or one drop for a lamb, in a mucilaginous 

 excipient) ; also creolin (2 to 5 grammes for the calf, 0.5 to 1 gramme 

 for the lamb), salicylic acid (1 to 2 grammes for the calf, 0.25 to 

 0.50 gramme for the lamb), in an alcoholic solution ; finally, 

 resorcin and some other antiseptics. 



In intense diarrheas, opium and rhubarb render good service. 

 We give opium in doses of 0.2 to 1 gramme for the calf, and about 

 0.05 to 0.2 gramme for the lamb ; opium tincture or Dover's powder 

 may also be given (calf, 1 to 5 grammes ; lamb, 0.5 to 1 gramme) ; 

 also rhubarb root in decoction (2 to 4 grammes for the former and 

 0.5 to 1 gramme to the latter). Most of the styptics have also 

 given good results. Lastly, it is also advisable to make astringent 

 irrigations per rectum with a solution of alum or tannin at 1 : 100, 

 of nitrate of silver or the lead salt at 1-2 per 100.^ 



' Filliâtre has obtained excellent results with tar-water. In substance the treatment 

 he recommends is : Pure vegetable tar, 150 grammes; boiling water, 6 litres. ''Let 

 the mixture become lukewarm, and give it in clysters of a third of a litre every half- 

 hour ; stop the treatment as soon as diarrhea ceases. The young calves had recovered 

 the same evening, and drank their allowance of milk. The next day put one-fourth 

 of tar-water into the milk; discontinue the treatment after two days.'' 



Barinetti advises a treatment consisting of milk and ether clysters. He recom- 

 mends two clysters a day with 300 grammes of milk, and a quantity of ether gradu- 

 ally extended from 5 to 12 or 15 grammes. — n. d, t. 



