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three times a-day, until symptoms of recovery are ap¬ 
parent :— 
Nitre, ground into a fine powder, 1 drachm , 
made into a ball with treacle and lintseed-meal. If the 
feverish symptoms still remain, it will be necessary again to 
have recourse to bleeding. It will be found of much im¬ 
portance to sprinkle the animars food with salt. The food 
should consist of cut grass or turnips ; and if the complaint 
attacks the animal in the winter, green food should be 
occasionally given, if possible. 
DIARRHOEA, OR LOOSENESS. 
Symptoms. —This disease and dysentery have frequently 
been confounded, although they are sufficiently different in 
their characters. Diarrhoea consists in an unusual discharge 
from the mucous vessels of the intestines, and is always 
accompanied by pain, gripings, and frequent stools, but 
unaccompanied by fever; nor is there any blood or slime : 
it almost always occurs in the spring; weak sheep and hogs 
being most liable to its attacks. In this disease there is 
only a temporary or partial wasting of the flesh, while in 
dysentery a rapid diminution of the muscular fibre takes 
place. It frequently improves the general health of the 
animal. 
Cause .-—Sudden changes from poor to rich pasturage ; 
and bad food will induce it. 
Remedies. —It is not prudent to stop this disease too 
rapidly ; but it is equally wrong to allow it to continue too 
long, as, if the discharge is either too long continued, or the 
purging very copious, it brings on great debility. If 
caused by change from dry to moist food, then it will 
oe proper to resume the dry feeding for a time, which will 
generally effect a cure within a few days. 
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