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great distress in the countenance, but the dog evinces less 

 disposition to hide himself than in simple bowel affection. 

 The mouth slavers, and is hot and cold by turns. 



Gastritis, when violent, is seldom relieved, even by any 

 treatment. When it does admit of cure, it is done by bleed- 

 ing early and largely, both by the neck, and by leeches to 

 the region of the stomach. The warm bath should be used, 

 and injections should be repeatedly administered. The chest 

 should be blistered also, but nothing ought to be given by 



the mouth. 



The stomach is also liable to become inflamed from poi- 

 sonous substances. The medical treatment of such cases is 

 detailed under the head Poisons. 



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Jaundice, 



Dogs now and then become affected with hepatic absorp- 

 tion, in distemper and acute inflammations of the abdominal 

 viscera ; but that icteric obstruction to the flow of bile pro- 

 ducing human jaundice I have not met with in them. 



Looseness, or Purging (Diarrhoea). 



Dogs are very subject, under various circumstances, to 

 diarrhcea. It is seldom that they are affected with the Dis- 

 temper without having a morbid alvine flux also, and which. 

 When obstinate and violent, is one of the most fatal accom- 

 paniments the disease can have. In the distemper, the colour 

 and consistence of the loose stools vary much ; sometimes the 

 motions are glairy or mucus-like, often frothy and pale; at 

 others totally black : but, when the purging has lasted some 

 time, they invariably become yellow. Another common 

 cause of purging among dogs arises from worms ; in which 



