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should be bred from. Cod-liver oil is of just asmucli service as in 

 the human svibject, but, as before remarked, it can only put off the 

 fatal result. Except, therefore, in the case of house-pets, it is not 

 desirable to use it. The dose is from a teaspoonful to a table- 

 sjjoonful three times a day. 



GASTRITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 



This ajffection is, like all others of the same kind, either acute or 

 chronic. The former very rarely occurs except from poison, or 

 highly improper food, which has the same effect. The symptonts 

 are a constant and evidently painful straining to vomit, with an 

 intense thirst, dry hoo nose, quick breathing, and an attitude 

 which is peculiar, the animal lying extended on the floor, with his 

 belly in contact with the ground ; and in the intervals of the 

 retching, licking anything cold within reach. The treatment con- 

 sists in bleeding, if the attack is very violent ; calomel and opium, 

 of each a grain, in a pill every four hours ; and two drops of the 

 diluted h3'drocyanic acid in a little distilled water following each. 

 Thin gruel or arrow-root may be given occasionally in very small 

 quantities, but until the vomiting ceases they are of little service. 

 If poison has clearly been swallowed, the appropriate treatment 

 must be adopted. 



Chronic gastritis is only another name for one of the forms of 

 dyspepsia, for the symptoms and treatment of which see p. 448. 



