194 INFLAMED STOMACH. 



Mix, and divide into six, nine, or twelve powders, or form 

 into balls, and give one every two or three hours. But if 

 there should be much coug-h present, then substitute the fol- 

 lowing': — ' 



Tincture of foxglove 1 dram 



Tartarised antimony {tartar emetic) 3 grains 



Nitrated potash (nifre) 1 dram 



Oxymel 2 ounces. 



Give from a tea to a dessert-spoonful of this mixture every two 

 or three hours. If either of these medicines acts as a vomit 

 on the dog", moderate the dose. 



In this complaint it is peculiarly requisite to keep the dog" 

 in a cool temperature. Provided his skin is screened from the 

 access of cold, it is no matter how cool the air he breathes. If 

 amendment should not be apparent in four hours, the bleed- 

 ing* may be repeated, and the blistering- likewise. But if, 

 in spite of these renewed applications, the nose and mouth 

 continue intensely cold, and the head remains held as hig-h, 

 or even hig-her, than before, a fatal termination may be ex- 

 pected *. 



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Iriflamed Stomach (Gastritis). 



The stomach is less frequently affected with idiopathic in- 

 flammation than the bowels ; it is, however, now and then 

 the seat of primary inflammation, and it often becomes in- 

 flammatorily affected when the bowels are so. When the 

 stomach is primarily inflamed, the sickness is incessant and 

 most distressing-; the thirst is unquenchable, and whatever is 

 taken in, is immediately thrown up again. There is also very 



* I would submit to the veterinarian the propriety of performing, in 

 particular pneumonic cases, the operation for empyema as a last re- 

 source. The evacuation of the serum, which is commonly thrown into 

 the chest, might arrest the fatal termination : at least, the experiment 

 would be worth the trial. ^ 



