360 DISEASES ARISING FROM NEGLECT. 



see puppies which are confined to their kennels with bandy legs. 

 This is usually the first sign of rickets. Sometimes the shins 

 bend forward, producing what is called the " buck-shin," but 

 whether the legs bow outwards or forwards the cause is the same. 

 The remedy is country air, exercise, and good food ; quinine and 

 steel pills, ordered for poverty of blood, will also prove beneficial. 

 Enlarged joints may be merely a sign of excessive vigor in the 

 formation of the bone. But there is to be met with a scrofulous 

 enlargement of the joints, which is seldom got rid of. This 

 scrofulous enlargement may occur in the knees, hocks, or stifles, 

 but the last-named joints are usually the seats of the disease. 

 Sometimes nature rallies and throws off this tendency to scrofula, 

 but more frequently the joints become larger and larger, the lame- 

 ness increases, and, in most cases nothing is left but to kill the 

 sulferer. 



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 INDIGESTION. 



Among the most common consequences of improper feeding 

 and neglect of exercise is indigestion, attended by its usual con- 

 comitant, constipation. If moderate starvation does not soon 

 restore the stomach, care must be taken that the liver is acting 

 properly, the faeces being watched to see if they are of a proper 

 color; if they are not, small doses of calomel or blue pill will 

 be required : (1), (2), or 13). If, on the contrary, the liver acts 

 properly, yet the stomach is out of order, recourse may be had to 

 the stomachic bolus (59), or to the draught (60), which will very 

 seldom fail, if aided by proper management. It should, however, 

 never be forgotten that medicine is of no use, unless, at the same 

 time, the diet is attended to, and sufficient exercise given. In 

 cases of indigestion, it is particularly necessary to change the food 

 every third or fourth day. 



