DIARRHCEAS OR “ SCOURS ” OF NURSLINGS. 371 
with sugar of milk, euonymin, baptistin, and especially hy- 
drastin, continue the good action of the mercurial and tend 
to check the flux, especially if combined with cerium and 
camphor bromide. In the meantime, pepsin and pancreatin 
are advantageously prescribed in connection with feeding as 
hereinafter mentioned, though the former may be added to 
the alteratives by omitting the cerium or bismuth. For rea¬ 
sons obvious also, these are best administered in suspension 
(in some mucilaginous vehicle prepared from tragacanth or 
acacia) for calves and lambs, whereas with colts the mode of 
exhibition is immaterial except in so far as convenience is 
concerned. 
When the diarrhoea is exhaustively depleting and of 
serous character, so much as to admit of no delay, fluid ext. 
of coto bark, (three to ten drops—half doses for lambs) with 
or without an equal quantity of fluid ext. of wild yam, ac¬ 
cordingly as there is, or is not, evidence of severe griping, 
will answer every purpose of an astringent without the per¬ 
nicious action of the latter; it appears to be a stimulant, al¬ 
terative, and stomachic, of specific action upon intestinal mu¬ 
cous membranes. When pain is manifestly severe and 
colicky, the wild yam (a few drops at a time, of the fluid ex¬ 
tract), is especially indicated, or if it seems desirable to anaes¬ 
thetize the intestine and suspend peristaltic action, chloral or 
analgesin is indicated, the rest thus given the bowels being 
often of incalculable value. 
After the administration of chloral or analgesin, or after 
the inflammation is calmed by coto and yam, pepsin and pan¬ 
creatin come in play, and also the alteratives and antacids. 
In lienteric diarrhoeas, trypsin or pancreatin is imperatively 
demanded, and, as Professor LeSage truly remarks, “ is the 
only remedy that does any good except a purgative, which 
may be given for the purpose of clearing out the fermented 
and undigested milk.” When pepsin is employed, however, 
the antacids must be given separately, and with considerable 
interval between the two, for as pepsin acts only in an acid 
medium, the addition of bismuth, cerium or other antacids, 
is alike unchemical and unphysiological, the action of the for- 
