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with an attack of shivering and a rise of 

 temperature, there being often three or four 

 degrees of fever accompanied by a rapid pulse. 

 There is pain in the back, vomiting, scanty and 

 high-coloured urine, or blood may be mixed 

 with the water. In some acute cases it is 

 quite suppressed, and the dog then suffers from 

 ursemic poisoning. It may arise from a severe 

 chill, but oftener from a stone in the kidneys. 



Treatment : Give milk and Vichy water in 

 equal parts to drink, also water to drink, to 

 which has been added a teaspoonful of cream 

 of tartar to every pint. Administer a dose of 

 Epsom salts, from one scruple 1 to one ounce, 

 dissolved in warm water, but given cold. If 

 vomiting persistent, give from half 1 to two 

 drops of diluted hydrocyanic acid in a tea- 

 spoonful of water, and ice to lick. After the 

 acute stage has passed, give from one 1 to 

 five grains of ammoniated citrate of iron, three 

 times a day in water. 



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Symptoms : Generally arises suddenly, and 

 often the result of a chill, as, for instance, a 

 dog plunging into cold water when hot after 

 exercise. When once a dog has had an 

 attack, he is liable to a recurrence, and then 

 indigestion will often induce it. The skin 

 becomes suddenly nodulated or swollen in 

 patches, the hair standing on end. The ears 

 may be affected and become half an inch thick ; 

 the head is often attacked, and the dog is 

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



