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been removed, should the root display a disposition to 

 sprout. 



When, however, such growths attack the internal 

 cavities of the body, the last exertion of authority 

 then becomes the highest mercy. Certain people have 

 pretended to cure such visitations. These quacks have 

 produced vast suffering, and have exacted heavy 

 charges ; but the asserted remedy has in the end, 

 after having embittered the animal's life, rendered 

 necessary the resort which was suggested above. 



CHAPTER IX. 



COUGH — ASTHMA. 



The dog is as subject to colds, as are other animals. 



Some of these creatures will cough violently after 

 the slightest exertion, and the spasm terminates with 

 an apparent attempt to vomit; but nothing is ejected, 

 except a little frothy mucus, generally discoloured 

 with bile. The dog is usually middle-aged, if not old 

 when thus attacked ; and the cough does not seem to 

 affect the health in the slightest degree. 



Emetics will afford the most certain and the greatest 

 relief. A dose proportioned to the size of the animal 

 may be given every third or fourth day. 



After the third dose of emetic has been exhibited, it 

 must not be longer continued, but some of the fol- 



