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but are less soothing- to the irritated intestinal tract; and 
when severe pain is present, salicylic acid is often advanta¬ 
geously substituted. Marked tenesmus, however, is better 
relieved by chloral-hydrate, or analgesin, perhaps in connec¬ 
tion with wild yam, either of which anaesthetize the intestinal 
tract, and at the same time in no way interfere with its nor¬ 
mal functions other than by decreasing peristalsis ; both also 
are antiseptic to greater or less degree, proportionately to the 
doses employed. 
In the majority of cases, pancreatin, or pepsin (or both, as 
occasion demands\ is all sufficient to relieve diarrhoea and 
restore healthy secretions. When the pancreatic fluid is 
wholly and normally restored, abnormal fermentation becomes 
impossible; and the biliary secretions are brought in accord 
therewith by the action of some mild alterative, as leptandrin 
or euonymin, or better yet, hydrastin combined with ipecac 
in minute doses, along with cerium oxalate. 
Pancreatin should, as before remarked, be administered a 
few moments prior to feeding, or, in other words, before the 
secretion of acid-liquid and pepsin has been provoked in the 
stomach by the presence of food or peptogenS. The object 
to be thus gained is, to remove the pancreatin from the possi¬ 
bility of destruction, and into the duodenum where it exerts 
its action, and where it properly belongs. 
“ Peptonized ” or pancreatized milk is unsurpassed in the 
prophylaxic of scours in young Iambs and calves, and is also 
a valuable adjuvant in the management of the malady. It 
cannot be too highly extolled where epizootic fluxes threaten, 
since the casein contained is transformed into flakes that are 
rapidly digested, causing no suffering or gastro-intestinal ir¬ 
ritation. It may be prepared by adding two or three tea¬ 
spoonfuls of liquid pancreatin, or five grains of “ pure pan¬ 
creatin ” to a gill of cold, boiled water in which has previously 
been dissolved a scruple of bicarbonate of soda, and adding 
to a pint of milk warmed to iio°-ii5° Fhr. This mixture 
should be set in a warm place until the opaque whiteness of 
the milk gives way to a grayish color, or a slight bitterness 
develops, when it may be removed to the ice-box, spring- 
