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cessary for sporting dogs, 126... 

 naturally subject to a costive 

 habit, 127. ..very subject to asth- 

 ma, 78...exercise essentially ne- 

 cessary for their health, 160... 

 how to teach them to exercise 

 themselves, 161. ..destruction of, 

 when necessary, how best effect- 

 ed, 219 



Dogs, their breeding, 87 to 109... 

 capable of superfoetation, 91... 

 opinions on breeding from con- 

 sanguinity, 107. ..pupping, 223 

 ...rearing of puppies, 109-113 



Do^-grass, the natural emetic for 

 dogs, 160 



Dressings for mange, 203-207-"how 

 performed, 208 



Dropsy, 153. ..of the belly, 154.. .of 

 the chest, 157. ..of the skin, ih.... 

 encysted, 158. ..hydatids, ih.,.. 

 Dropsy of the eyeball, 164 



Dysentery, 158 



E 

 Ears, cropping of them, 130... 

 rounding them, i6....Ears can- 

 kered, 116. ..the flap swelled, 120 

 Emetics generally, 159...excelleut 

 in asthma, 81... useful in distem- 

 per, 145. ..dog-grass the most na- 

 tural one, 160 

 Empyema, 194 

 Enteritis, 184 



Epidemics, distemper sometimes so, 

 135. ..inflamed bladder proved 

 so in 1810, 183-"inflamed lungs 

 also sometimes epidemic, 193 

 Epilepsy, 174, 141 

 Eruptions, 200 



Exercise of dogs, 160... great use of 

 it, 161 ... particularly useful in 

 preventing au undue accumula- 

 tion of far, 166 

 Eyes, diseases of, 162... ulcer in, ib. 

 ... sj urious ophthalmia, ib — 

 very common in distemper, 163 

 ...true ophthalmia, i6.... cataract, 

 164 

 Eyelids, ulcerated, 165 



Fatness, excessive, 165. ..its conse- 

 quences, and how to prevent it, 

 166,..a common cause of asthma, 



78 



Feeding of dogs, 167. ..physiology 

 of digestion, i6.... excessive feed- 

 ing productive of disease, 168... 

 various kinds of food, ib. 169... 

 food proper in sickness, 71... 

 mode of administering it, 70-71 

 ... clysters often a convenient 

 medium of conveying nutriment 

 in sickness,132... nutritious feed- 

 ing particularly necessary in 

 distemper, 147. ..feeding and ex- 

 ercise should be regulated in re- 

 lation to each other according 

 to circumstances, 173 



Feet, sore, 174 



Fever, ib. 



Fits in dogs, their various kinds, 

 174...caus;S of them, i6....very 

 common in distemper, 141-149 

 ...often arise in otherwise healthy 

 dogs, particularly in pointers, 

 setters, and spaniels, from an ex- 

 cess of irritability, 175.. .a very 

 fatal kind brought on in bitches 

 who suckle, 176, 224... common 

 to puppies, 113, 318... worms a 

 frequent occasion of fits, 318 



Flap of the ear, swelled, 120 



Fleas in dogs, how destroyed, 177 



Fractures of the bones, with the 

 mode of reducing them, 179... 

 how detected, 132. ..often united 

 with dislocation, i&... .compound 

 fractures, 180 



Fungous excrescences, 309 



G 



Gastritis, 181 



Gestation, or going with young, 91 



Glandular swellings, 181 



Gravel, ib. 



Greyhounds, natural history of, 31 

 ...condition particularly neces- 

 sary for, 293. ..distemper parti- 

 cularly fatal to them, 138 



H 



Hcsmorrhage, 182 



Hcemorrhoids, ib. 



Hair, wire-haired dogs very liable 

 to be affected with mange, and 

 such hair soonest becomes dis- 

 coloured, 201 



Head, swelled, 182 



Heal in bitches, 87 



Hepatitis, 182 



Hernia, ib. 



