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the complaint, even when it is borrowed from the mildest forms : 

 on the contrary, many dogs, which have taken the disease by 

 inoculation have had it with peculiar severity, and others have 

 sunk under it. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS COATS OF THE 

 INTESTINES. 



Dysentery, as an idiopathic affection in dogs, is very rare ; 

 but an irritation productive of morbid and inordinate mucous dis- 

 charge is produced by various causes. A principal one is the con- 

 sequence of long-continued diarrhoea common to distemper, as so 

 lately shewn. — See also Diarrhoea^ Class III. Another is the 

 result of bilious inflammation. — See Enteritis^ Class I, Sub- 

 Class IV. A third cause is the introduction of poisons. — See 

 Class VIII. Super-purgation will bring it on, as noticed with 

 Enteritis and Diarrhoea : the presence of worms will likewise occa- 

 sion it. — See Wormsy Class IV. 



Inflammation of the Mucous Coats of the Bladder.- 

 See Cystitis^ Class I, Sub-Class IV. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE AIR-PASSAGES, OR COUGH. 



Idiopathic catarrh will sometimes attack dogs, producing the 

 same sjinptoms as a common cold usually does with us ; as de- 

 fluxion from the nose and eyes, with cough and slight symptoms 

 of fever. The treatment proper will be an emetic; mild doses of 

 antimonial powder (from two grains to five), moderate feeding, 

 open bowels, and no exposure to wet or cold. 



Symptomatic coughs are of several kinds, as that of distemper, 

 of asthma, of pneumonia or inflamed lungs, and of worms. — Sec 

 these several affections in the Index* 



