80 SICKNESS. 



use for the purpose. If recourse can be had to the process before 

 described the moment the animal has swallowed the baneful drug, 

 I should have no doubt of success ; but if only a few minutes 

 elapse, the cure is extremely doubtful. I have witnessed several 

 instances, in all of which the animals died, though every exertion 

 was used for their preservation. 



SICKNESS, OR A FOUL STOMACH. 



Dogs are very liable to a foul stomach ; but this is more par- 

 ticularly the case with such as are tied up or confined. If you 

 tie a dog to a kennel for a few days, the moment you loose him, 

 he will run in search of grass to eat, the broad blades of which 

 he prefers ; this will frequently cause him to vomit : whenever 

 the animal is troubled with sickness or a foul stomach, he will 

 uniformly have recourse to eating grass, though vomiting does 

 not always follow. 



A foul stomach proceeds from indigestion ; therefore eight 

 or ten grains of tartar emetic may be very beneficially given, 

 followed, in a day or two, by a purge of syrup of buckthorn. 



A dog never perspires ; but whenever he IB unwell, his eyes 

 very strongly exhibit the change, are a certain index of the state 

 of his health, and assume a languid, a dull, or a fiery appearance, 

 according to the nature of the disorder with which he is afflicted. 

 The powers of digestion in a dog do not appear to be promoted 

 by exercise. If you take a dog into the field to hunt with a full 

 stomach, he will throw up the contents of it in a few minutes, 



