DISEASES OP DOGS : COLIC. Sll 



troubled with severe colicky pains in their bowels ; 

 when this occurs give the physicking ball (No. 2, 

 p. 304) as soon as possible, and repeat it every 

 day for three or four times. 



The ^vegetable poisons, croxvjig, coculus indicus, 

 water of common laurel, and the hydrocyanic acid, 

 generally kill dogs in a few minutes, causing con- 

 vulsions and death. A drachm or two of the 

 raspings of crow fig is mostly enough to destroy 

 a large dog ; or a few drops of hydrocyanic acid, 

 put upon the tip of the nose, with a glass rod, will 

 kill him in a few minutes. 



The emetic (No. 8, p. 310) would be proper to 

 be administered, were the nature of his complaint 

 quickly enough discovered ; but in these instances 

 remedies generally come too late. 



CHAP. V. 



INFLAMMATORY COLIC. 



When the bowels are attacked with this dis- 

 ease, the dog is restless, and appears evidently 

 labouring under much pain, and if the belly be 

 pressed with the hand, the animal immediately 



