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able. When inflammation of the bowels arises from 

 external injury, such as a wound in the belly, it is 

 generally associated with peritonitis. Hot fomenta- 

 tions for the belly, or poultices, will help to subdue 

 the pain. 



Diarrhoea and Dysentery 



The former is symptomatic of derangement of the 

 stomach and bowels, whereas the latter is frequently 

 indicative of disease of the mucous lining of the lower 

 end of the bowel, and indicated by blood-stained 

 evacuations so commonly observed in the low form 

 of distemper. Distemperic dysentery is more liable 

 to prevail where the sanitary conditions of the kennel 

 are not good, and there is nothing tends to exhaust 

 the body quicker than this trouble. It may be the 

 best method that Nature has of getting rid of the 

 noxious material from the system, but it is a very 

 exhausting process and demands careful treatment. 



Diarrhoea arises through sudden changes of food, 

 from the presence of worms, from the prolonged 

 use of soft food, as the result of fee iing on greaves 

 and dried meat in other forms, exposure to cold, 

 and from the abuse of purgative medicine. As the 

 causes are so variable it seems almost unnecessary 

 to remark that the treatment must be just as varied, 

 so that it is essential to try and ascertain what has 

 produced the diarrhoea. To resort to the use of 



