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 champing of the mouth, with a shaking of the head, 

 a distortion of the countenance, and a flow of frothy 

 sahva from the jaws : as the disease advances, these 

 fits increase, and become more violent. Another 

 form in which lits make their appearance in this dis- 

 ease is hy running round, and other violent contor- 

 tions of the whole bod v. In other instances there is 

 universal and continued spasm of the whole body, 

 which has no suspending intervals : all these are 

 sometimes blended, or degenerate into each other. 



In the habitual tits of dogs, giving them, every 

 third, fourth, or fifth day, according to the efi'ect 

 produced, one of the 



Alterative Mange Powders fP^ge 22], 

 proves often a salutary and efiicacious mode of treat- 

 ment. 



When fits appear whose cause is more obscure, it 

 would be prudent to state the case accurately to the 

 author, who might judge thereon, and direct a pro- 

 per mode of treatment. 



FRACTURES. 



The limbs of dogs are very liable to have their 

 bones fractured ; but the irritability of the constitu- 

 tion is so much less in them than in ourselves, that 

 they suffer comparatively but little on these occa- 

 sions, and the parts soon reinstate themselves, even 

 without assistance, though in general the limb re- 

 mains crooked. The tiiigh is a very common sub- 

 ject of fracture, and though it appears a most seri- 

 ous bone to break, yet it is one that, with a little 

 assistance, commonly unites straight, and forms a 

 good limb. When an accident of this kind has hap- 

 pened, in case the violence has injured the fleshy 



