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DISEASES OF ANIMALS IN INDIA, 
oxen and camels : an instance of the feeding and masaulah 
for an express camel, I gave in the Veterinarian , p. 126, for 
1849, — without which the camel could not perform such a 
journey without diarrhoea. 
It is well understood by the natives that animals are very 
liable to diarrhoea, if worked without extra food or masaulah, 
and rapidly lose flesh, particularly such as described by an 
able observer and writer, Mr. Ilurford, Y.S. of H.M. 15th 
Hussars, in No. 59 of the Veterinarian for November, 1852: 
— “ The Bengal stud horses,” of late years, 6i their thin chests 
without breadth and depth, their long attenuated limbs, and 
the greyhound run of their flanks, proclaim their utter defi- 
ciency in those points which constitute the beauty of the 
troop-horse.” 
In a campaign, such formed horses, oxen, or camels, under 
privation, would have diarrhoea, and when neither food nor 
masaulahs are readily procurable after a long march, a 
native will give (if he can get it in the bazaar of the village) 
an ounce of alum in the horse’s water, to prevent this dis- 
position to diarrhoea at such times. 
vv-j In regard to the diarrhoea which supervenes in other diseases, 
it is in general that of the lungs, in which the functions of 
the abdominal viscera are always more or less disturbed. The 
following is what a practical man has written on the subject : 
“ Cold or wet suddenly applied to the surface of the body, 
especially when heated, checking or suppressing perspiration, 
may, on the principle of derivation, throw an inflammation 
upon the bronchial membrane, or upon that of the bowels, 
and the two irritations, bronchitic and gastro-enteritic, may 
exist simultaneously. It is this known sympathy between 
these two membranes which deters us from giving aloes or 
anything likely to irritate the bowels in bronchitis ; being in 
very great danger of becoming troubled with diarrhoea, if we 
do, at the same time.” * 
During the hot season in India horses perspire freely with- 
out exertion, and being then exposed to cold rain, you will 
soon have practical, perhaps painful, proofs in your own 
person of the truth of the foregoing observations, or in that of 
your servants, and horses, being also suffering from fever. The 
causes of diarrhoea must, therefore, be first ascertained before 
we can expect to treat it with success. When arising during the 
rains from eatingThe fresh-grown green grass, I used to give 
Mr. Bracy Clark’s gripe tincture, and I had seldom occasion 
to use the chalk and opium mixture. 
* Diseases of the Chest, &c., by Mr. W. Percivall, M.R.C.S., &c., 
2d edition, p. 93. 
