DOGS. 



This is a portrait of the Scotch Shepherd's dog, which 

 is distinguished for fidelity and intelligence, performing, 

 by his sagacity and agility, what no man, or any num- 

 ber of men, could possibly accomplish. One of these 

 affectionate animals once took care of a lost child for 

 several days, dividing with him his allowance of food, 

 which the child was eating in a cave when found by its 

 friends. 



The dog is liable to various diseases. In most re- 

 spects they are similar to those of other animals, and 

 the remedies are nearly the same. Spirits of turpentine 

 is more powerful to the dog, and calomel is more de- 

 structive. He is a hot animal ; his stomach will digest 

 bones. While the pulse of the horse is thirty-six to forty, 

 and of the ox fifty to fifty -five beats per minute, that of 

 a large, lazy dog is one hundred, and of a small, active 

 one, one hundred and fifteen to one hundred and twenty. 



Rabies, or Madness, is one of the most important sub- 

 jects in veterinary pathology, as it involves not only the 

 life of animals, but that of human beings. In this dis-v 

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