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of time together. Every morning a ball made of equal 

 parts of bark and chamomile flowers, as large as the 

 clog can swallow, may be very usefully given. 

 Tiuougbout the disease the animal should be mitri- 

 liously fed, except iri the very first stages ; when, if he 

 has much fever and is already fat, he may be sparingly 

 fed : but, as a general rule, it is not proper to feed 

 too spuriiigly ; for, as it is uncertain how long the 

 disease may last, so it is necessary to keep up the 

 strength by every means. The exercise should not be 

 excessive ; when it is, fits frequently come on. The 

 dog should be kept in a moderate temperature, 

 rather warm than c )ld ; and it should be particularly 

 impressed on the recollection, that, as it is a disease 

 particularly subject to relapse even after two or 

 three weeks, so the medicines should not he hastily 

 discontinued. 



More copious directions may be found on a re- 

 ference to the DISTEMPER TREATISE, sold with 

 tiie Powder [page 21]. 



DROPSY. 



This is by no means an uncommon complaint in 

 dogs. They are most subject to ascites or ventral 

 dopsy ; next, they have dropsy of the chest : less fre- 

 quently they have encysted dropsy ; and least of all 

 are they subject to anasarca, unless accompanied by 

 ascites. 



Ascites or dropsy of the belly is, as I have before 

 remarked, not an uncommon disease, and a prodigious 

 quantity of water is sometimes accumulated. The 

 cause of the complaint appears of various kmds, and 

 its attack is sometimes slow and sometimes rapid. It 



