Index, 



325 



Pregnancy, 91. ..how distinguished 

 from dropsy, 154 



Preventive against rabies, 280 



Pulse in dogs, 222. ..best detected 

 by the breathing, ih. 



Puppies, breeding and rearing of, 

 92... diseases of, 112, 113...their 

 claws, 122.... when too numer- 

 ous, produce fits in the mother, 

 224... have a spasmodic colic, 

 113, 111 ...mode of cropping and 

 tailing them, 130... are injured 

 by much coniinement. 111 



Pupping, 223... when assistance re- 

 quisite, ib Caesarean opera- 

 tion, ib bitches killed from 



rearing too many pups, 224 



P»r^jH^ medicines, 210. ..how treat- 

 ed, when a disease, 131. ..very 

 common in distemper, 144... a 



■ very dangerous kind brought on 

 by mercury, 207, 216 



R 

 Rabies, 225... origin of the term, i6. 

 ...history of it, 225-228. ..erro- 

 neous notions relative to it, 231- 

 234...worming no preventive, 

 ib. 3l3...at first of spontaneous 

 origin, 234....subsequently not 

 so, i&....heat not the origin of it, 

 237. ..nor season, 238. ..nor ab- 

 stinence, 240 .... what animals 

 have it, 241. ..what animals are 

 capable of communicating it, 

 242. ..in what part of the body 

 does the poison originally exist, 

 244. ..in the salivary glands, 248 

 ...time between the bite and ap- 

 pearance of the disease, 249... 

 symptoms of the disease, 250... 

 early symptoms, ib. to 253. ..in- 

 termediate symptoms, 255. ..rag- 

 ing madness, 256 dumb mad- 

 ness, 259. ..morbid anatomy of ra- 

 bid subjects, 262... .what diseases 

 may be mistaken for rabies, 268 

 ...modus operandi of the rabid 

 poison, 269.. .remedies employed 

 during rabies, 272-275. ..prophy- 

 lacticks, or preventive remedies, 

 275 ...preventive qualities of the 

 tree box, 280, ..destruction of the 

 bitten part the most certain, 283 

 ...process of the operation, ib..., 

 considered as regards the human 



subject, 289. ..unnecessary dread 

 of rabid dogs, 2^)1 



Rheumatism, 292. ..its varieties, ib. 

 ...causes of it. 294, ..weather an 

 effect on it, ife. ...treatment of it, 

 295 



Rickets common to puppies, 296... 

 in the wry-legged breed of ter- 

 riers this deformity is propa- 

 gated, ib. 



Rounding, among hounds, 131 



Running round, a symptom of 

 spasm in the bowels, 124 



St. Anthony's fire, 305 



St. Vitus's dance, 305 



Salivation easily excited in dogs, 76 

 ...very hurtful to them, r6. 



Salt forms a good domestic eme- 

 tic, 160... a vermifuge also, 319 



Scirrhous tumours, 297 .... moi'bid 

 appearance of these tumours, ib. 

 ...scirrhous teats in bitches, 297 

 ...scirrhous testicles, 299 



Scouring in dogs, 131, 144, 195, 

 207, 210 



Scrot}im, inflamed, 300 



Setons, 300. ..not so beneficial as 

 supposed in distemper, 151 



Setters and pointers, their natural 

 history, 36, 34. ..their condition 

 necessary to be attended to, 126 

 ...setters most liable to internal 

 canker, and pointers most to ex- 

 ternal canker, 118 



Shepherd's dog, natural history of, 

 29 



Sickness, excessive, 301 



Spaniel, his natural history, .35... 

 long lived, 74. ..subject to fits in 

 hunting, 175 



Spasm, varieties and treatment of, 

 302. ..spasmodic colic, 124.. .the 

 same in puppies, 113 



Spaying, 303 



Stings of wasps and bees, 221 



Stomach, inflammation of, 181... 

 from poisons, 220. ..specific kind 

 in rabies, 267. ..stomach, foul, 

 1 10. .when full of an indigestible 

 mass, strongly characteristic of 

 rabies, 265 



Stone in dogs, 304 



Stilphur, overrated as an altera- 

 tive, 77 



