DISEASES OF DOGS: COLIC. 315 



breathing rather accelerated, and if the belly be 

 pressed, it gives him pain. 



The treatment of this disease consists, from 

 whatever cause it is induced, in relieving the 

 spasm, evacuating the bowels, and preventing a 

 tendency to inflammation, all which will be, in 

 most cases, effected by the following 



(RECIPE, No. 11.) 

 Purging Ball for Flatulent Colic. 



Take — Opium, in powder, two grains; 



Calomel, four to eight grains (according to size 



and strength) ; 

 Aloes, one drachm ; 

 Oil of caraway, six drops : 

 Syrup, or conserve, enough to make into a ball. 



Repeat this ball every four or six hours, until the 

 bowels are acted upon. The clyster (No. 7, p. 309) 

 should be administered previously, as noticed be- 

 fore, passing the finger up the dog's fundament 

 to bring away the hardened faeces, which would 

 obstruct the passage of the clyster. If the ball 

 (No. 11) does not operate in the course of six or 

 eight hours, and the animal is not relieved, but his 

 belly painful when pressed, take, if a middling- 

 sized dog, from six to eight ounces of blood from 



