836 INFLAMMATIONS. 



there is a good deal of constitutional fever, but the dog rarely 

 lives long enough to show this condition, being either destroyed 

 as incurable, or dying rapidly from loss of blood or diarrhoea. 

 Treatment is of little avail. Though the attack maybe postponed, 

 the disease cannot be cured, and no phthisical animal should be 

 bred from. Cod-liver oil is of just as much service as in the 

 human subject, but, as before remarked, it can only postpone the 

 fatal result. It is therefore not well to use it except in the case 

 of house pets. The dose is from a teaspoon ful to a tablespoonful 

 three times a day. 



GASTRITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 



This affection is, like all others of the same kind, either acute or 

 chronic. The former very rarely occurs except from poison, or 

 highly improper food, which has the same effect. The symptoms 

 are a constant and evidently painful straining to vomit, with an in- 

 tense thirst, dry hot nose, quick breathing, and an attitude which 

 is peculiar the animal lying extended on the floor, with his belly 

 in contact with the ground, and in the intervals of retching lick- 

 ing anything cold within reach. The treatment consists in bleed- 

 ing, if the attack is very violent, and calomel and opium pills, of a 

 grain each. Thess pills are to be given every four hours, to be fol- 

 lowed with two drops of the diluted hydrocyanic acid, distilled in 

 a small quantity of water. Thin gruel or arrow-root may be given 

 occasionally in very small quantities, but until the vomiting ceases, 

 they are of little service. If poison has clearly been swallowed, 

 the appropriate treatment must be adopted. 



Chronic gastritis is only another name for one of the forms of 

 dyspepsia, the symptoms and treatment of which are given else- 

 where. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 



This is one of the most common of the diseases to which sport- 

 ing dogs are liable, in consequence of exposure to cold and wet 



