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sometimes exists. It is detected by the diopsitai 

 swelling being not so universally diluised over the 

 belly, and the undulation is more obscure. It ren;ains 

 also a longer time without proving fat?.l. I have 

 never succeeded in any attempts at a cure. 



Hydatids likewise now and tlien, but very rarely, 

 form a species of dropsy. I have seen thtm in the 

 liver, the lungs, the spleen, and the brain. 



EPILEPSY. See Fits. 



EXERCISE. 

 The want of due exercise is the cause of one half 

 of the diseases of dogs; and the ill effect of this is 

 heightened })y inordinate feeding. It should be re- 

 membered that a dog is an animal of prey, destined 

 by nature in a wild state to hunt for his food, by 

 preying on lesser and weaker animals, ^^hose exerticiis 

 to escape nmst keep him in a continual state of most 

 active exercise. In this state dogs probably get a 

 regular and full meal not twice in a week. How 

 very difficuit must be their remove, therefore, from a 

 state of nature, either shut up in a warm room twenty- 

 two out of twenty-four hours, or perhaps chained by 

 the necks m.any months together without any other 

 exercise than the length of their chain allows ! If they 

 Iiave plenty of air, and are moderately M, then the 

 want of exercise shews itself by mange or canker. If 

 a dog is conlined in a room well washed, and other- 

 Vkise attended to, then it shews itself by increased fat 

 and cough, which ends in aslhn.a. Nothing i« a more 

 con^ inciiig proof of the necessity of exercise to animals 

 than their uatural love of play ; from -vshichrWC infer 



