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Without a very llrid and very extended attention 

 to the fubjecl, no one would be aware how very nu- 

 merous are the difeafes of thefe animals. Rheuma- 

 tifm, both chronic and acute, is very common among 

 them. I have feen an affe<5lion producing chalk- 

 flones in the joints of the toes, not unlike human 

 gout. Pleurify deftroys many of them; and inflam- 

 mations of the llomacb, bowels, and kidneys, are 

 not unfrequent. They are fubjecl likewife to con- 

 fumptions, and are not free from the whole train of 

 nervous aflfedions, as apoplexy, lethargy, fpafift, 

 palfy, epilepfy, &c, Diftemper, worms, and mange, 

 are too well known to need comment. 



The dillinguiihing the difeafes of dogs, and the 

 proper mode of treatment, are not the only difficul- 

 ties to be overcome ; but how to adminifter the re- 

 medy, when the others are evident, is often a very 

 ferious difficulty. Now and then, dogs prove very 

 refradory; but, in the greater number of cafes, 

 medicines may be eafily given to them ; but to a 

 large dog, not lefs tiian three perfons are often re* 

 quifitc. In general cafes, however, two perfons can 

 manage it readily in the following manner : Place 

 the dog upright on his hind legs between the knees 

 ofafcated perfon, with his back towards the per* 

 fon ; then apply a napkin around his neck and 

 (lioulders behind, bringing it over his fore legs, and 

 fecuring it by the knees of the perfon holding the 



