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ten grains given morning and evening. If the vomition 

 can be arrested, the use of vegetable tonics, as gentian 

 or quinine, will be called for, and, in chronic cases, nux 

 vomica in small and repeated doses. 



Gastritis, or Inflammation of the Stomach of a true 

 character, is seen only in connection with poisoning by 

 irritants. 



The Symptoms greatly resemble those of indigestion, 

 developing slowly, and consist of thirst, fever, a habit of 

 licking cool objects, depraved appetite, and subsequently 

 frequent vomition. Pain is evinced by frequent whining, 

 restlessness, moving from one place or position to 

 another, and by stretching at full length, to present the 

 abdomen to the ground. Pressure over the stomach 

 causes pain ; the pulse is accelerated and small, and 

 animal temperature is increased. The mouth and tongue 

 are dry, dirty and foul, breath offensive, mucous mem- 

 branes injected, and vomition proceeds first by the 

 ejection of simple fluid, which occasionally contains 

 blood. 



Treatment. — Precise measures consist of the adminis- 

 tration of an agent which by chemical union with the 

 poison renders it inert, details of which will be given 

 under Poisons. Frequent draughts of soothing muci- 

 laginous and alkaline solutions are advisable, and the 

 application of counter-irritants, as mustard, in the form of 

 plasters, is indispensable. With full abatement of all 

 the symptoms, the animal enters upon the stage of con- 

 valescence, when vegetable tonics and alkalies will serve 

 to promote sound recovery, during which the greatest 

 care must be exercised in feeding. 



Ulceration of the Stomach is occasionally seen as 

 the result of malnutrition dependent upon wasting dis- 

 eases, as distemper, or bad and insufficient food, with 

 confinement in unsanitary places. The condition of 

 defective health thus induced also secures the existence 

 of other local evidences, tlie cornea being the common 

 seat of the disease. 



Foreign Bodies in the Stomach of the dog are 

 common. Their name also is legion and we cannot 



