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 Mix and divide into ten powders, if the dog is very 

 small ; if of a middle size, into seven ; and if very 

 large, into five powders ; and give one every two or 

 three hours. The animal should be kept cool, and 

 nothing should be offered as food but thio broth. 



INFLAMED STOMACH. 



The stomach is less frequently inHanicd than the 

 bowels ; however, it is still often the seat of inflam- 

 mation even of itself, and still more frequently it 

 accompanies the inflammation of the bowels. When 

 the stomach is mfiamed, the sickness is incessant and 

 most distressing, and the thirst is unquenchable. 

 Whatever is drank is immediately thrown up again. 

 Tliere is also very great distress in the countenance, 

 but less disposition to hide. The mouth slavers, and 

 is hot and cold by turns. In this case there is seldom 

 any relief obtained, even by any treatment. When 

 it does admit of cure, it is by bleeding, warm bath- 

 ing, and injections. The chest should be blistered ; 

 but nothing should be given by the mouth. 



LOOSENESS, or PURGING. 



Dogs are subject, under some circumstances, to 

 he violently scoured. It is seldom that dogs have 

 the popular disease termed Distemper but that they 

 are purged with it ; and it is one of the most fatal 

 accompaniments the disease can have, and tlierefore 

 should be immediately checked. In distemper, the 

 stools, however liquid, vary much ; being sometimes 

 yellow and sometimes totally black: when the purg- 

 ing has lasted some time, they become yellow. Ano- 

 ther common cause of purging among dogs arises 



