THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXXVI. 
'No. 422. 
FEBRUARY, 1863. 
Fourth Series. 
No. 98. 
Communications and Cases. 
ON SOME OF THE DISEASES OF THE STOMACH 
AND INTESTINES OF THE HORSE AND 
OTHER ANIMALS. 
By Professor Brown, M.R.C.V.S., 
Late of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 
(^Continued from vol. xxxv, p* 764.) 
Subacute Diarrhcea. 
Under this division we may include the most common 
forms of the disease among cattle and sheep. 
The absence of any inflammatory symptoms, the continu¬ 
ance of the affection for a considerable period without the 
occurrence of any decided organic changes, its frequent and 
spontaneous cure, and its general tractability under prompt 
treatment, are characters which distinguish the subacute form. 
It will be understood that many circumstances may arise to 
render subacute diarrhoea unusually serious in its results; 
among them previous debility, inclement weather, defective 
quantity or quality of food, and, in addition, extreme youth, 
may be estimated singly, or in continuation, as conditions 
which tend to a great mortality among the affected animals; 
but under favorable circumstances the attack is often tran¬ 
sient, and usually yields to comparatively simple treatment. 
A consideration of the disease in its most benign aspect 
will present us with numerous instances arising from a vitiated 
stated of secretions; or from the consumption of irritating 
or innutritious food in small quantities: in such cases the 
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