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evacuated by frequent drops, tinged with blood ; in others there is 

 a total stoppage of it. The belly appears hot, swelled, and is very 

 tender to the touch, particularly between the hind legs. 



The animal affected should be liberally bled, and have opening 

 medicines ; clysters and the warm bath are also to be resorted to, 

 and frequently repeated. Diuretics are improper, but antimonials, 

 as antimonial powder, or small repeated doses of emetic tartar, are 

 by no means to be neglected. Where the warm bath is not con- 

 venient, warm fomentations may be properly substituted. Leeches 

 may also be applied. 



Sub-Class V. 



INFLAMMATION OF LIGAMENTOUS AND APONEUROTIC 

 EXPANSIONS. 



RHEUMATISM. 

 There is no disease, except distemper and mange, to which 

 dogs are so liable, as to a rheumatic affection of some part or other 

 of the body. Rheumatism presents almost as many varieties in 

 dogs as it does in man ; and it has some peculiarities that are ob- 

 served in the dog only. One very extraordinary one is, that 

 rheumatism never exists in a dog without its affecting the bowels ; 

 that is, whatever part of the body becomes rheumatic, either an 

 active rheumatic inflammation will be found to exist in the bowels 

 also, or they will be attacked with a painful torpor : and, in either 

 case, costiveness will be commonly present. The most usual form 

 of this complaint is one which is very similar to the human lum- 

 bago. In this case a dog is, in general, seized with a partial or 

 total loss of the use of his hind legs; his back, particularly about 

 the lokis, appears tender and painful to the touch. He screams 

 on being moved ; his belly is hot, very painful, and very sensible 

 to pressure. The nose is hot also, the mouth dry, and the pulse 

 considerably increased in frequency. Sometimes the paralysis is 

 not confined wholly to the hinder legs, but the fore legs are partly, 

 or completely, paralysed, and helpless also. It seldom attacks the 



