DISEASES OF DOGS : THE LIVER. 325 



(RECIPE, No. 22.) 



Take — Calomel, four grains ; 



Rhubarb, in powder, two scruples ; 

 Castile soap, half a drachm : 

 Beat into a ball, and give it. 



If the dog pants, and appears to have much 

 pain at the commencement of the complaint, take, 

 if a middling-sized dog, from five to eight ounces 

 of blood from him, a short time before giving the 

 emetic. Bleeding will also be proper at any time 

 in the complaint, if the symptoms be present. 



CHAP. IX. 



DISEASED AFFECTIONS OF THE LIVER OF DOGS. 



It is almost impossible to ascertain when the 

 liver of dogs is affected, until the disease has made 

 some progress, in which case the dog loses his 

 appetite, is thirsty, and looks dull ; his coat stares 

 on his back, and his eyes and mouth are of a 

 yellowish hue ; the animal pants, and soon be- 

 comes fatigued, when exercised ; his bowels are 

 almost always very constipated, and sometimes a 

 looseness comes on, attended with painful strain- 

 ing : when the disease has continued any time, the 



