DISEASES OF DOGS. 



IDOGS are much more nearly allied to 

 ourfelves in conftitution than cither horfes, oxen, or 

 iheep ; hence their difeafes are more like our own ; 

 and living, as they do with us a life of art, their 

 difeafes become not only very numerous, but very 

 mixed and irregular. This renders it a fubjecl not 

 at all within the reach of the common farrier ; and 

 even the veterinarian, who follows analogy only, 

 without a particular attention to the Itruclure, oeco- 

 nomy, habits, and manners of the dog, will find 

 himfelf totally at a lofs in the treatment ; and though 

 the fimilarity of their conftitutions, from their eating, 

 like us, mixed food, and being immediately domef- 

 ticated with us, give their difeafes a refemblance 

 to our own, yet the great difference in their mode 

 of expreffing thefe difeafes, and the peculiar effea 

 that fome medicines have on them, render the hu- 

 man furgeon, without a decided attention to the 

 fubjecl, perfedly incapable of afting from analogy : 

 independant of which, dogs have feveral fpecific 

 difeafes equally unknown to horfes, or ourfelves. 



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