418 DISEASES ARISIXG FROM NEGLECT. 



to scrofula, but more frequently the joints become larger and 

 larger, the lameness increases, and, in most cases, some one joint 

 being worse than the others inflames and forms matter within it, 

 when nothing is to be done but to consign the poor animal to the 

 halter or the river. 



INDIGESTION (Dyspepsia). 



Among the most common consequences of improper feeding and 

 neglect of exercise is indigestion, attended by its usual concomitant, 

 constipation. (See page 414.) It shows itself in flatulence, loss 

 of appetite, alternations of constij^ation and diarrhoea, low spirits, 

 and want of muscular vigour ; although often the animal is fat 

 .enough, or, indeed, sometimes loaded with fat (adipose matter). 

 Such a state of things never occurs to a dog properly reared and 

 afterwards well managed, being confined to those which are either 

 fed on improper food, or allowed too much of it, or which are not 

 allowed exercise enough ; or, as is too frequently the case, which 

 are submitted to all three of these causes. The treatment is simple 

 enough, it being only necessary, except in very old-standing cases, 

 to adopt the jjroper rules for feeding, exercise, &c., which are laid 

 down at page 199 et seq., and nature asserts her supremacy, 

 rapidly getting the victory over disease. In no animal are the 

 ups and downs so rapid as in the dog, who gets fat and lean in a 



