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hurrying what may happen to lie in the bowels for- 

 ward, it increases the evil. Thus, whenever a dog has 

 had any obstruction for nio*-e than three days, he 

 should have a clyster as well as a purgative. Habitual 

 costiveness is best relieved by vegetable food. 



COUGH. 



Dogs and horses are more subject to coughs, or 

 as much so as ourselves. Horses indeed are much 

 more so. Dogs have several kinds of cough, and a* 

 these arise from Tery different causes, require very 

 different treatment, and have very different termina* 

 tions, so they require particularizing. One of the 

 most general coughs to which dogs are liable is that 

 which usually accompanies distemper. This in gene- 

 ral is a short dry cough, with an eiibrt to bring 

 something up ; it is seldom, however, any thing 

 comes up, unless a little frothy nmcus. This cough 

 in general appears w^hon a dog is just attaining his 

 full growth, sometimes between four and nine or ten 

 montlis ; it may, however, appear sooner or much 

 later, but the majority of instances occur while they 

 continue puppies, or just as they attain their growth. 

 When, therefore, a young dog coughs much, shivers, 

 is dull, and wastes, though he may eat as usual, in 

 that case the dog has the cough of distemper, and it 

 is to be cured by the means recommended under 

 that head. 



Sometimes a young full grown dog has a short oc- 

 casional cough that may likewise distress him, or occa- 

 sion any sickness. In general some starkg of the 

 hairand fcetor of the breath accompany it. Tnis ^nises 

 from worms, and is to be cured by the means recom- 

 mended under that head, 



