INFLAMMATION OF THE BOAVELS. 088 



At the same time give clysters until the medicine ope- 

 rates. 



Sometimes costiveness is mistaken for the animals bowel's 

 being in a lax state. This is when the animal passes its 

 fgeces in small balls, accompanied by a quantity of mucous 

 matter ; but this is a sure sign of the bowels being really 

 bound up. 



When inflammation has its origin in cold, accompanied 

 by panting, heat, and thirst, and the dog is Very restless, 

 and the stomach will not retain the food, accompanied 

 by heat in the belly, redness of the eyeballs, and there 

 is an alternation of hotness and coldness of tho nose, and 

 the dog groans, it may be inferred that the inflamma- 

 tion is considerable ; bleeding must, therefore, be had re- 

 course to immediately, and clysters of castor-oil, with from 

 fifteen to twenty drops of laudanum in them, according to 

 the size of the dog. If the bowels become costive, they 

 must be kept open with the following purgative, until the 

 dog recovers. 



Jalap . . . ■ 5 grains. 



Aloes, powdered . . 1 grain. 



If bile is the cause of inflammation, which will be known 

 by the animal vomiting a dark yellow, or blackish matter, and 

 without the bowels being much affected in either way, the 

 following aperient must be given : — 



Calomel ... 3 grains, 



Compound extract of colocynth 3 grains, 



made up in the form of a pill, and put down the animal's 

 throat. One may be given every fifteen hours, until cured. 



If the evacuations are accompanied with blood, and the 

 bowels in a naturally loose condition, laxatives must not be 

 had recourse to, Vut the following used : — 



4 M 



