DIARRHOEA, OR LOOSENESS. 
501 
Causes. —Diarrhoea is induced by a variety of causes; 
the most frequent, however, is when cattle are either turned 
out from a straw-yard or poor pasture to a luxuriant field of 
grass—which is always preferred by cattle—where they 
gorge themselves to such an extent, that they bring on fog- 
sickness, and inflammation, as well as this complaint 
Remedies. —If the malady is taken at first, it has been 
found that putting the animal into a house, and feeding it 
upon dry fodder or grain will effect a cure. But should it 
not do so, it will be necessary to have recourse to bleeding 
the animal to the extent of two or three quarts ; and its 
food should consist of malt-mashes, lintseed-tea, or gruel 
made of flour or oatmeal. If the scouring is attended with 
pain, a quarter of an ounce of laudanum may be given in 
the food, or in a drink of a pint of gruel. 
In cases where the discharge is very great, bleeding must 
not be attempted; but half a-pint of castor-oil may be given 
in a drink. If in five or six hours there is no abatement 
of the disease, let the following medicine be given every six 
hours, until the scouring is less violent, and the dung re¬ 
sumes its natural colour: 
Peruvian bark, powdered \ ounce, 
Camphor, finely powdered 1 scruple, 
Prepared chalk . . 1™ ounce, 
Laudanum J ounce ; 
to be administered in a quart of gruel, made of flour. 
In diarrhoea, it is not the object of the veterinarian to 
stop the disease suddenly; and he that knows his profession 
will not prescribe strong astringents, and these in large 
doses, as this mode of treatment may produce worse effects 
than the disease itself 
If the discharge becomes intermittent, and the dung occa¬ 
sionally hard and difficult to pass, then it will be necessary 
