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or in part, on animal matter. The dog's that are kept as fa- 

 vourites about the person, are too apt to have their inclina- 

 tion for animal food indulged, which, added to their confine- 

 ment, and the heat in which they live, greatly aggravate this 

 tendency to costiveness in them. 



Costiveness is productive of numerous evils ; it increases 

 the disposition to mange and other diseased secretions. It 

 also produces indigestion, encourages wor.ms, makes the 

 breath foetid, and blackens the teeth : but it is principally to 

 be avoided from the danger, that the contents of the bowels 

 may accumulate and bring on inflammation. — See Inflamed 

 Bowels. — Whenever a dog has been costive three days, and 

 one or two moderate aperients have failed of opening the 

 bowels, it is not prudent to push the means of relief farther 

 by more violent purgatives ; for this vv^ould be apt to hurry 

 the contents of the intestinal canal into one mass, whose re- 

 sistance being too great for the bowels to overcome, inflam- 

 mation follows. Mild aperients may be continued, but clys- 

 ters are principally to be depended upon. — See Clysters. — 

 In such cases, the introduction of the clyster pipe will often 

 detect a hardened mass of excrement. If the action of the 

 pipe, or the operation of the liquid, should not break this 

 down ; it is absolutely necessary to introduce the finger, or, in 

 a very small dog, a lesser apparatus, and mechanically to di- 

 vide the mass and bring it away. 



The recurrence of costiveness is best prevented by vegetable 

 food, and exercise : but when vegetable food disagrees, or is 

 obstinately refused, boiled liver often proves a good means of 

 counteracting the complaint. — See Feeding. 



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Couo/l, 



Dogs and horses are both very subject to coughs; but, 

 while the latter have only an acute and a chronic kind to 

 contend with, dogs are troubled with several kinds ; and, as 



