1'^^ DVSENTERY. 



however, now and then seen it, and, in most of the cases, it 

 was m old dogs who had laboured under some previous debi- 

 lity. In such instances, when any remaining stamina affords 

 a chance for recovery, the treatment recommended for dropsy 

 of the belly may be resorted to : very small punctures may 

 also be made in the distended skin. 



Encysted DROPSv.—An accumulation either of serum, or 

 of a fatty or gelatinous matter, within a particular sac, is thus 

 called. The dropsy of the ovaria is by much the most fre- 

 quent of this kind, and, to a certain extent, is very common 

 in bitches ; but it is in these general cases mor^ an accumu- 

 lation of fat than serosity. I have, however, seen instances of 

 true ovarial dropsy of the hydatid kind, which all terminated 

 fatally, although they proved very slow in their progress. 



These encysted cases of dropsy are detected by the swell- 

 ing being less universally diffused over the belly, and by the 

 undulation being more obscure. The swellings likewise, in 

 these instances, may be often traced to have commenced on 

 one particular side, and to have first appeared high in the 

 loins, not descending until carried down by their weight. 



The treatment proper to pursue in no wise differs from that 

 directed in ascites; but I never witnessed more than one case 

 which terminated favourably, and in that I discharged the 

 fiuid contents by a trochar effectually : in others this mode 

 failed. 



Hydatids, independent of the ovaries, likewise now and 

 then, but very rarely, form a species of dropsy in other parts. 

 I have seen them in the liver, the lungs, the spleen, and the 

 brain. 



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Dysentery. 



As an idiopathic affection of the bowels, I have not ob- 

 served dysentery among dogs ; but, in the malignant dis- 

 temper, it IS not uncommon for the diarrhoea that usually 

 accompanies it, by inflaming the mucous surface of the intes- 



