Cold] 45 [Colic 



things that have been swallowed, for as a rule, 

 as before mentioned, they remain in the stomach 

 for a considerable time before passing into the 

 intestines. I have known coins to remain there 

 for five or six months before being passed ; how- 

 ever, with the Rontgen rays coins, keys, jewellery, 

 stones, etc., can always be detected. 



Treatment: Unless the foreign body swallowed 

 is doing the dog visible harm, it is best left 

 alone. Feed on solid food as suet puddings, 

 rice, bread, meat and such like foods, so as to 

 distend the bowels as much as possible and to 

 cause big motions, and the foreign body, in all 

 probability, will pass out safely ; do not give 

 purgative medicines, which only cause contraction 

 of the bowels and do harm, but if there is pain 

 give from two x to ten drops of laudanum in a little 

 water, three or four times a day, or oftener. 



When the substance swallowed causes real 

 obstruction in the bowel, the laudanum may be 

 given a trial for two or three days, but as a rule 

 an operation becomes necessary, which consists in 

 opening the abdomen, finding where obstruction is, 

 and opening the bowel and removing the offending 

 matter. It is an operation requiring aseptic pre- 

 caution and some care, and the sewing up the 

 incision made into the bowel wants carefully 

 doing or a stricture may result. 



Cold in the Head : See Catarrh. 



Colic : 



Symptoms: Generally affects puppies from eating 

 rubbish, but may also affect adult dogs, especially 

 1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



