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water iu the head, a disease to which young children arc 

 liable, from long-continued irritation in the stomach and 

 bowels. 



These affections are accompanied by great irritability of 

 the stomach, which discharges everything as soon as taken ; 

 and it not unfrequently happens that the poor animal ex- 

 pires in one of these spasmodic affections. When the dis- 

 temper reaches this degree of virulence, few dogs recover ; 

 but there have been instances where Blaine's medicine has 

 proved effectual, even in the worst stages of the disease. 

 Dr. James's powders have also, in extreme cases, produced a 

 favourable change. Even in the worst cases the dog always 

 retains its sanity, and will drink water, though certainly not 

 very freely — two circumstances which will readily distin- 

 guish the disease in question from canine madness. 



Remedies. — If this disease is attended to at its first ap- 

 pearance, the after-symptoms may be greatly mitigated, by 

 administering opening medicines, in small quantities, and 

 persisting in their use ; and afterwards in larger doses, as 

 the disease makes progress. This will be found of the 

 greatest consequence in all complaints where the mucous 

 membrane is likely to be affected, which is almost invariably 

 the case where there is inflammation of the lungs ; and was 

 satisfactorily proved, by my late talented friend Dr. Macin- 

 tosh, lecturer on the practice of physic, Edinburgh, to be a 

 general accompaniment of all pulmonary diseases in the hu- 

 man species. For this purpose I would recommend, so soon 

 as the symptoms appear, to administer an ounce of castor- 

 oil, and, after its operation has abated, the following bolus 

 should be given : — 



Crocus metallorum, finely levigated . 6 grains, 



White antimonial powder . . 6 grains, 



Diaphoretic calx of antimony . .10 grains ; 



to be mixed up with treacle and lintseed meal into a ball 



