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parts of the treatment must be carefully attended to. In 

 some instances I have witnessed the good effects of a daily 

 warm bath. I have also observed, where the diarrhcEa of 

 distemper has existed in a dog- who had been before closely 

 confined, that removing* him into a more free and pure atmo- 

 sphere has tended g-reatly to check the disease. 



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Lmnhago. 

 See Rheumatism. 



Lungs, inflamed. 

 See Inflamed Lungs. 



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Madness. 



The rabid malady among- dog-s is so commonly called 

 madness, that I was induced, in the last edition, to detail it 

 under this popular but erroneous appellation : it is also not 

 unfrequently called by the still more erroneous name of hy- 

 drophobia. To prove the misapplication of these terms, it is 

 here only necessary to remark, that, as rabid dog-s never ex- 

 press any dread of water, so hydrophobia cannot apply to 

 this specific ailment in them. And as there is very seldom a 

 perfect alienation of mind, but on the contrary, in by far the 

 g-reater number of caseS;, there is perfect recollection, a clear 

 discrimination relative to objects and persons, and but little 

 interruption to any of the faculties of the mind ; so madness 

 is almost equally a misnomer with hydrophobia. As a more 

 erudite, thoug-h equally objectionable term, it is now gene- 

 rally named rabies,- under which head it is detailed. 



