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flesh has been given ; which ceased on this kind of diet 

 being withheld, and medicine calculated to restore the 

 tone of the stomach being ordered. In every case of 

 fits, when the attack is over, I attend to the stomach ; at 

 the same time, ordering that the dog is to go short dis- 

 tances, and never to leave the house without a chain and 

 collar. 



The object of this last injunction is to prevent the ani- 

 mal running about, and thus heating itself, or causing a 

 flow of blood to the brain. 



It is to be lamented that the crowd of people prevents 

 an injection being administered out of doors in London : 

 but the same objection does not apply to- the country ; 

 and as the effects of the aether are more marked in pro- 

 portion as it is quickly exhibited, persons in the 

 country, when, during the hot months of summer, they 

 take dogs for an airing, should be provided with the ma- 

 terials necessary to render fits, if not harmless, at all 

 events less fatal. 



NERVOUS SYSTEM. RABIES. 



THE dog is naturally the most nervous of all the dumb 

 tribe. His intense affection, his ever-watchful jealousy, 

 his method of attack, the blindness of his rage, and his 

 insensibility to consequences, all bespeak a creature 

 whose nervous system is developed in the highest possi- 

 ble degree I myself once had a little cur, who, as I sat 

 reading, would enter the apartment, jump upon my knee, 

 uttering a low whimper all the time, creep along my 



