226 DOG3 : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



Give from half a teaspoonful to a teaspoonful three times 

 a day. 



The above must be persevered in for a couple of months 

 before any effect can be anticipated. Mercury I have 

 not found of any service, though Elaine speaks highly 

 of it, and Youatt quotes his opinion. Perhaps I have 

 not employed it rightly, or ventured to push it far 

 enough. 



Under the treatment recommended, the dog may be 

 preserved from speedy death ; but the structures have 

 been so much changed that medicine cannot be expected 

 to restore them. The pet may be saved to its indulgent 

 mistress, and again perhaps exhibit all the charms for 

 which it was ever prized ; but the sporting-dog will never 

 be made capable of doing work, and certainly it is not to 

 be selected to breed from after it has sustained an attack 

 of hepatitis. 



Sometimes, during the existence of hepatitis, the animal 

 will be seized with fits of pain, which appear to render it 

 frantic. These I always attribute to the passage of gall 

 stones, which I have taken in comparative large quantities 

 from the gall-bladders of dogs. The cries and strug- 

 gles create alarm, but the attack is seldom fatal. A brisk 

 purgative, a warm bath, and free use of laudanum and 

 ether, afford relief ; for when the animal dies of chronic 

 hepatitis, it perishes gradually from utter exhaustion. 



The post-mortem examination generally presents that 

 which much surprises the proprietor ; one lobe of the 

 gland is very greatly enlarged; it evidently contains 



