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pound of lintseed-meal be boiled to a jelly in two gallons oi 
water, and add to it an ounce of nitre. This will be suffi¬ 
cient to form six draughts, of a pint and a half each, to be 
diluted in half-a-gallon of warm water. Some practitioners 
recommend a quarter of a pound of starch to be added to 
the above quantity of lintseed. Gruel made of milk and 
flour may be given with advantage ; and if the dung as¬ 
sumes a dark colour with a disagreeable odour, then about a 
gill and a half of castor-oil must be administered, and this 
may be assisted by clysters of gruel, butter, and laudanum. 
When the disease becomes inveterate, some veterinarians 
have recommended strong tonics, which, in many instances 
have proved effectual. The following recipe will frequently 
prevail in bad cases :— 
Prepared chalk 
Ground cassia 
Ground ginger 
Hartshorn 
| pound, 
ounce, 
\ ounce, 
1 ounce; 
to be made into four balls, and given every four or five hours. 
Should all the above remedies prove ineffectual, the dis¬ 
ease may then be treated as an affection of the liver, and 
the following ball administered — 
Blue mercurial pill 
India rhubarb . 
Castor-oil 
Oatmeal . 
3 drachms, 
3 drachms, 
3 ounces, 
4 ounces ; 
which should be repeated for three or four davs in succes¬ 
sion. This may, however, produce sickness and gripes, ac¬ 
companied with increased scouring; and in that event it 
will be necessary to administer astringents, and warm gruel 
should forn the chief drink of the animal while he is 
under the above treatment. Let the following be given 
