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of the lungs, stomach, and bowels ; also other 

 diseases noticed in this Treatise. The quantity 

 of blood to be abstracted in these complaints will 

 be mentioned in the different sections on these 

 diseases. 



When inflammatory diseases attack dogs, they 

 are known to exist by the symptoms which ac- 

 company them ; and it is by carefully attending 

 to these symptoms that they are distinguished 

 from each other. In inflammation of the lungs, 

 for example, the dog appears in great distress, 

 with his head raised and panting for his breath ; 

 symptoms which sufficiently indicate both the na- 

 ture and seat of the complaint. In inflammation 

 of the stomach, the dog is constantly retching, 

 and immediately vomits whatever is taken into 

 the stomach : these symptoms fully show that the 

 stomach is inflamed. Therefore, whenever a dog 

 becomes unwell, we ascertain the nature of his 

 disease by the symptoms which appear, and con- 

 sequently too great attention cannot be paid to 

 them. 



It is customary to bleed dogs in the jugular or 

 neck vein, with a common lancet. Some thick 

 packthread or tape being tied round the lower part 

 of the neck, the vein swells, and may be seen or 



