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complaint, whofe rapidly increafing fale is a fufficient 

 teftimony of their efficacy. 



EMETICS. 



Vomiting is fo often repeated in all dogs, and 

 with fo little difficulty, that we are warranted in 

 concluding it is in them a natural and a falutary a6l, 

 tending to keep them in health. They are themfelves 

 fo fenfible of this, that they purpofely excite it by 

 eating a fpecies of broad-leaved grafb, which proves a 

 vomit to them. Now, if vomiting is neceffary to 

 dogs living in the country, where they have frefh air, 

 and plenty of exercife, how much more fo muft it 

 be to dogs in places like London, or other great 

 cities, where they are pampered, highly fed, and get 

 little exercife ? Yet, in thefe cafes, they very feldom 

 can get at this natural emetic; for, even if they walk, 

 the highly cultivated fields around large cities 

 feldom produce this grafs, and without it they feldom 

 vomit. I have no doubt, myfelf, that many of the dif- 

 eafes to which dogs are fubjed are brought on by the 

 want of this natural a6t ; for their ftomachs become 

 over-loaded, and too much is taken into the confti- 

 tution, which either produces fat, or ends in mange. 

 Naturally, when dogs have eaten more than is proper 

 for them, they have recourfe to this grafs, by which 

 their ftomachs are foon relieved ; but in cities and 

 large towns, where they are confined from this means 



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