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bowels are so. In idopathic gastritis, the sickness is incessant and 

 most distressing ; the thirst is unquenchable, and whatever is taken 

 in is immediately thrown up again. There is also very great dis- 

 tress in tjie countenance, but the dog evinces less disposition to 

 hide himself than in simple bowel affection: the mouth slavers, 

 and is hot and cold by turns. The disease, when violent, is seldom 

 relieved, even by any treatment ; but when it does admit of cure, 

 it is done by bleeding early and largely, both by the neck, and 

 by leeches to the region of the stomach. The warm bath should 

 be used ; injections should be repeatedly administered : the chest 

 should be blistered also ; but nothing ought to be given by the 

 mouth. The stomach is likewise liable to inflammation from poi- 

 sonous substances ; a very marked and peculiar one results from 

 rabies. The medical treatment of these varieties is detailed under 

 the head Poisons. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE INTESTINES (ENTERITIS). 



The intestines of dogs are very irritable, and extremely subject 

 to inflammation ; and the phlegmasiae affecting them are of various 

 kinds, according to the operatin* cause. Distemper is the cause 

 of a variety that shews itself by a continued diarrhoea. Dogs are 

 very liable to rheumatism ; but it is no less true than curious, that 

 a dog never has acute and seldom chronic rheumatism either, that is 

 not accompanied, more or less, with inflammation of his bowels : 

 this connexion of diseases is, however, as far as my experience goes, 

 confined to the dog alone. In many cases the bowels are the im- 

 mediate and principal seat of the rheumatism, which is productive 

 of a peculiar enteritis, easily distinguished by those conversant 

 with the diseases of dogs, and as further noticed below. Poisons 

 produce a most fatal inflammation in the bowels of dogs ; the 

 effects of which are treated on under the head Poisons. 



Among the various inflammatory affections, four kinds are pe- 

 culiarly common to the intestines of dogs. Thcjirst is that which 



