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tificaliss., was given immediately and repeated every three hours, 
until, after eighteen hours, the colt received (after deducting 
something which may have been lost in administering) ca. 25 gm. 
tinct. opium, with perhaps 50 gm. spirits, and the diarrhoea 
subsided. 
(2.) A four-day-old healthy, though weak colt, was also at¬ 
tacked with diarrhoea, which called forth colic pains. A dose of 
5 gm. tinct. opii simpl., with spirits, was given every three hours. 
The diarrhoea, however, would not abate ; on the contrary, after 
two days of diarrhoea, the appetite was lost; the colt would not 
suck any more; an involuntary watery, grayish, offensive ali¬ 
mentary discharge escaped continually, and upon no change tak¬ 
ing place on the third day after giving rheum with opium 
purum aa. 5 gm., with decoct, altliea, and hope of saving the colt 
was nearly abandoned, opium purum, 30 gm., with altliea 
powder, was made into six small pills, one to be given every 
three hours, and not until the last dose of opium was taken, at 
the end of the fourth day, did improvement set in, and the colt 
to the present day is very lively. 
(3.) Another colt, four weeks old, did not suffer with diar¬ 
rhoea, but with colic, to such a degree that displacement of the 
intestines was suspected. The colt received, within three hours, 
tinct. opii simpl. 10, 0, and morph-hydrochloric 0, 3, internally. 
The pains subsided, and the colt recovered. 
I have noticed one thing, that after giving such large doses of 
opium the colts will continually, for a longer or shorter period, 
walk slowlv around in a circle in the box stall. Whether this is 
due to the opium, or to the dull pains in the intestines—as in 
dogs suffering with tape-worm, who move rapidly in a circle—I 
am not prepared to determine ; but no trace of actual poisoning 
could be detected. According to my experience, such diarrhoeas 
usually abate after 12 to 15 gm. tinct. opium at most, thus 
after three doses of 4 to 5 gm. each. Should there still be no 
change, six or ten hours must be intermitted, and then the doses 
repeated. 
It is necessarv at the outset of the disease to ffive the animals 
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