184 INFLAMED BLADDER AND BOWELS. 



is a total stoppag-e of it. The belly appears hot, swelled, 

 and is very tender to the touch, particularly between the 

 hind leg's. 



The animal affected should be liberally bled, and have 

 opening" medicines ; clysters and the warm bath are also to 

 be resorted to, and frequently repeated. Diuretics are im- 

 proper, but antimonials, as antimonial or James's Powder, 

 or small repeated doses of emetic tartar, are by no means to 

 be neglected. Where the warm bath is not convenient, warm 

 fomentations may be properly substituted. Leeches may also 

 be applied. 



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Inflamed Bowels (Enteritis). 



The intestines of dogs are very irritable, and extremely 

 subject to inflammation ; and the inflammations affecting them 

 are of various kinds, according to the operating cause. Dis- 

 temper occasions a species of inflammation, that shews itself 

 by a continued diarrhoea. Dogs are very liable to rheuma- 

 tism ; but it is no less true than curious, that a dog never has 

 acute, and seldom chronic rheumatism either, that is not ac- 

 companied more or less with inflammation of his bowels : 

 this connection is, however, peculiar to the dog alone. In 

 many cases the bowels are the immediate and principal seat 

 of the rheumatism, which is productive of a peculiar inflam- 

 mation, easily distinguished by those conversant with the 

 diseases of dogs ; and further noticed below. Poisons pro- 

 duce a most fatal inflammation in the bowels of dogs ; the 

 effects of which are treated on under the head Poisons. 



Among the various inflammatory affections, four kinds are 

 peculiarly common to the intestines of dogs. 



The first is that which is brought on by rheumatism, as 

 already explained. — See Rheumatism. 



Inflamed Bowels, from Costiveness, forms the second 

 kind, and is a very common occurrence. Dogs will bear cos- 

 tiveness for mTiny days before inflammation comes on ; but. 



