THE 



DISEASES OF DOGS. 



In treating of the diseases of these animals, the com- 

 panions and friends of man, the same order will be 

 adopted that has been pursued in the pathology of the 

 horse. 



Of inflammation generally it is unnecessary again 

 to speak; and although there are many diseases which 

 are connected with an inflammatory state of the brain, 

 a case of pure phrenitis has rarely, if ever, been seen 

 in the dog. Nor is there any thing that bears strict re- 

 semblance to either vertigo or to megrims in the horse. 

 That which comes nearest to it shall be the subject of 

 the first chapter. 



CHAPTER I. 



COMPRESSION OF THE BRAIN. 



This singular disease is thus characterized : — the 

 dog is continually running round and round ; where 

 he has liberty to do so, he will continue this action 

 almost from morning until night. He performs these 

 incessant circles in precisely the same direction, and 

 generally with his head a little inclined to the inside 



