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safety of man and animals. In some cases several 

 members of a pack of Foxhounds have been destroyed 

 through picking up pieces of poisoned meat, probably 

 laid down by a gamekeeper for the destruction of some 

 enemy to game, and keepers are warned that this 

 dangerous practice is deserving of the severest cen- 

 sure, in fact it is a criminal offence and ought to be 

 punished accordingly. 



In general the symptoms produced by such poisons 

 as arsenic and antimony, etc., are vomiting, pain 

 in the belly, prostration, thirst, dysentery, all of 

 which persist for a variable period, and result in 

 their destructive effects in proportion to the amount 

 of poison consumed, the amount of food in the 

 stomach, and the general condition of the animal's 

 constitution, together with the nature of the poison. 

 Both vomiting and dysentery are, obviously, intended 

 to be salutary, and ought not to be checked unless 

 the dog is too exhausted to withstand their depress- 

 ing effects. All irritant chemicals produce gastro- 

 enteritis (inflammation of stomach and bowels), 

 but the specific effects of a poison may be more 

 manifest in the intestines than in the stomach, 

 depending upon its degrees of solubility. Again, 

 poison may be acute or chronic in accordance with 

 the duration of the inception of the irritant. Thus, 

 for instance, arsenical poisoning may become acute 

 if the medicinal administration of arsenic is con- 



