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thrown up after the bowels have been opened ; the warm bath, 

 Hkewise, and stimulating frictions should be continued, at short 

 intervals, until the case is hopeless or mitigated. 



The occasional and epidemic spasmodic colic of puppies, 

 though essentially the same with that we have described, deserves 

 a separate notice, because it sometimes rages in an epidemial form ; 

 and also because it appears more directly an intestinal attack; 

 the head not being aflfected either with vertigo or stupor: its 

 spasms take place at intervals, occasioning loud cries while they 

 last. The treatment, however active and judicious, is seldom 

 successful ; but that which has seemed the most efficacious has 

 been mercurial purgatives ; as calomel one grain, aloes a scruple, 

 opium a quarter of a grain : make into a ball, and give every two 

 hours, until the bowels are open. A young dog of some strength 

 and size should have a double dose ; a Newfoundland, a treble one. 

 Warm bath, stimulating frictions, and clysters, are equally proper 

 here as in the preceding. 



CLASS III. 



DISEASES OF THE ALIMENTARY CANAL. 



Gastritis. — See Class I, Sub-Class IV. 

 Enteritis See Ditto, Ditto. 



DIARRHCEA, OR PROFUSE PURGING. 

 Dogs are subject, under various morbid affections, to looseness 

 of bowels ; it is one of the most common and obstinate symptoms 

 in distemper ; and in that complaint the evacuations are of a very 

 variable quantity, colour, and consistence; sometimes glairy, at 

 others thin and watery ; often frothy, pale, and in small quantity ; 

 now lead-coloured, and then bloody. In bilious purging they are 

 yellow or black ; and when worms exist, they change frequently, 



