PERITONITIS. 
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turpentine, bark, dragon’s blood, 8tc. ; but they are, on the 
whole, very little better than useless trash. Mr. E. Friend’s 
recipe I may truly call a specific, having never yet known it to 
fail, even in the worst of cases, provided large doses are given, 
with plenty of thin gruel to dilute the contents of the stomach, 
and thereby facilitate their passage into the intestines. 
Carbonate of ammonia and cantharides, with a few other tonics, 
are also excellent, after purgatives have been given, in almost 
every case of cattle disease, a fact which I have repeated oppor- 
tunities for proving. The only objection I have to the sulphur 
remedy above mentioned is, that it is generally followed by super- 
purgation, or else loss of appetite, which requires a few doses of 
anodyne stomachic medicine to remove; and this happens to be 
a circumstance sadly out of time, at a period when the most rigid 
economy is the order of the day. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY. 
By Mr. You att. 
No. X. 
Peritonitis. 
Aug. Ilf A, 1833. — Young Zebra. This animal is little 
more than a fortnight old. It was observed to strain in passing 
its faeces, and, to-day, has been several times up and down, 
rolling as if from colicky pains, and there is frequent discharge of 
watery stools mingled with mucus and bile, and having many 
unmasticated oats in them. Let it no longer be permitted to get 
at its mother’s corn, and give an astringent drink, composed of 
prepared chalk, kino, opium, and ginger. 
12th . — The medicine was given, and produced its effect. The 
purging abated, but the animal continued sadly uneasy, and 
continued to roll about. An ounce of castor oil and two 
drachms of syrup of white poppies were then given. It was 
easier, and once or twice sucked its dam ; but the uneasiness 
and the purging quickly returned. Repeat the castor oil and 
poppy syrup. 
13 th . — The patient was dead when I arrived. The intestines 
were filled with a yellowish fluid mingled with unmasticated 
oats ; but there was not the slightest inflammation on any part 
of the mucous membrane : the purging, therefore, whether it 
resulted from the milk of the mother, or from the young one 
