INDEX. 



323 



106, 155, 226 — of the optic nerve, 

 270 



Penis liable to be affected with fun- 

 gous excrescences, 264 



Phrenitis, symptomatic, 124 



Physic for dogs, 86 



Piles, 165 • 



Pleurisy, 132 



Pneumonia; idiopathic, 124 — common 

 in distemper, 108 



Pointer, his natural history, 26 — 

 pointers and setters liable to fits in 

 hunting, 146 



Poisons, 184 — mineral, 185 — methods 

 of detecting, 185 — vegetable, 189 

 — animal poisons, 192 — treatment 

 of cases of poisoning, 186, &c. 



Polypus, 266 



Pregnancy, 45 — how distinguished 

 from dropsy, 169 



Preventives against rabies, 246, 248, 

 249 — destruction of the bitten parts 

 the most effective, 249-257 



Prophylactics, for rabies, 241, 249 



Pug dog, natural history of, 27 



Pulse in dogs, where felt, 92 — the 

 state of the circulation also de- 

 tected by the respiration, 92 



Puppies, breeding and rearing of, 63 

 — diseases of, 65 — how puppies are 

 rendered small, 54 — how increased 

 in size, 54 — their claws, 313 — when 

 too numerous, produce fits in the 

 mother, 289 — have a spasmodic 

 colic, 155 — mode of cropping and 

 tailing them, 295, 296 — are injured 

 by much confinement, 65 — subject 

 to a tabid state, 179 



Pupping, 293 — when assistance re- 

 quisite, 218 — Caesarean operation, 

 294 



Purging medicines, 87, 135 — purging, 

 violent, 116, 157, 187 



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Rabies, 192 — origin of the popular 

 term madness, 193 — history of the 

 malady, 193 — its origin must have 

 been spontaneous, 200^but kept 

 up by causation, remote or direct, 

 203 — the animals which can en- 

 gender it, 207 — the rabid virus ap- 

 pears to be contained in the salivary 

 glands, 209 — rabid symptoms, 215 

 — acute or raging madness, 221 — 

 taciturn or dumb madness, 225 — 



post-mortem appearances, 229 — 

 preventive treatment of it, 232 — ef- 

 fects, 238 — what other diseases liable 

 to be mistaken for it, 228 — post- 

 mortem appearances, 229 — morbid 

 action of the virus, 288 — medical 

 treatment of rabies, 238 — preventive 

 treatment, 238, 241— effects of the 

 buccus, or box, 245 — of the bella- 

 donna and Scutellaria in combina^ 

 tion, 248 — the destruction of the 

 wounded surfaces the best prevent- 

 ive, 249 



Reason in animals, what, 37 — differ- 

 ence between reason and instinct, 

 38 — dog, rationality of, 37 



Remedies, action of, in the dog, bear 

 little analogy to the same in other 

 animals, or to man, 90 



Rheumatism, 142 — its varieties, 143 — 

 treatment of it, 144 



Rickets, 180 — common to puppies, 

 180 — in the wry-legged terrier pur- 

 posely propagated, 180 



Rounding, among hounds, 296 



Running round, a symptom of bowel 

 affection, 155 



St. Anthony's fire, 286 



St. Vitus' s dance, 149 



Salivation easily excited in dogs, 83 

 — its injurious consequences, 83 



Salt forms a good domestic emetic, 86 



Scirrhous tumours, 172 — scirrhous 

 mammae, or teats, 173 



Scouring in dogs, 157 



Scrotum, inflamed, 275, 286 



Scutellaria lateriflora, or skull-cap, a 

 preventive of rabies, 248 



Setons, when beneficial in distemper, 

 115 



Setter, his natmral history, 23 — setters 

 most liable to internal canker of 

 the ear, and pointers most to that 

 external to it, 284 



Shepherd's dog, natural history of, 26 



Sickness, excessive, a symptom of poi- 

 soning, 185 



Spaniel, his varieties, 16 — his distinc- 

 tive characters, 21 — long lived, 66 



Spasm, varieties and treatment of, 

 151 — spasmodic colic, 153 — the 

 same in puppies, 157 



Spaying, 292 



Splenitis, 141 



