INFLAMED BOWELS. 189 



Submunate of quicksilver {calomel) 10 grains 



Aloes 3 drams 



Opium quarter of a grain. 



Make into four, six, or eight balls, according to the size of 

 the dog, and give one every four or five hours till relief is 

 obtained. It will be prudent to give clysters of mutton broth ; 

 broth may also be forced down the throat: and when the 

 sickness is very obstinate, add ten drops of laudanum. The 

 warm bath, or fomentations, should be likewise made use of, 

 in case the belly feels hot and tense. 



It will, however, frequently happen that the evacuations 

 from the bowels are, from the irritating quality of the bile, 

 profuse before the disease is at all attended to ; and in addi- 

 tion to the quantity evacuated, the stools, in some of these 

 cases, are found to be tinged with blood. Here no laxatives 

 should be used, but, on the contrary, the following should 

 be given: — 



Powdered Colombo 1 ^^^^ 



Powdered chalk 1 ^'^^"^ 



Powdered gum arable ^ ^^^^ 



Powdered opium • ^ S^^^^- 



Mix, and divide into three, five, or seven balls, according 16 

 the size of the dog, and give one every three or four hours. 

 In addition to this, a starch clyster may also be given, if the 

 case is desperate. The distressing sickness that sometimes 

 accomoanies these aggravated cases, and the bloody evacua- 

 tions, Ukewise render it very difficult to distinguish them from 

 those that occur from the administration of mineral poisons, 

 without a minute attention to circumstances already detailed. 

 The sickness is, however, best relieved in all of them by the 

 powder of Colombo, given in moderate but frequent dosejy, 

 as from ten to fifteen grains. 



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