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to distemper, and. is a symptom of weakness, with congestion 

 not inflammation of the vessels of the lungs and heart. Ammonia 

 and other stimulants should be given freely, as in the typhoid 

 stage, and plenty of good jelly, &c., should be forced down the 

 throat with a spoon. The nose, ears, and feet, are generally icy 

 cold, and, if the weather is severe, the dog should be put in a 

 warm but well-ventilated room ; or, if that is inconvenient, should 

 wear constantly a soft, warm cloth. 



2ndly. If the ABDOMEN is the chief seat of the complaint, there 

 may be either inflammation of the external coat of the bowels, 

 which is not common, or inflammation and ulceration of the 

 mucous coat and glands, which is one of the most usual forms in 

 which the disease expends itself. In the first of these, called 

 enteritis, there is great pain, tenderness, and swelling, with the 

 cord-like lines on each side the navel, and constipation. In the 

 second there is little pain, seldom any swelling or tenderness ; and 

 there is more or less diarrhoea, the fasces being generally mixed 

 with blood, and often, to all appearance, entirely composed of that 

 fluid. In enteritis it will be necessary to give a grain of calomel, 

 and the same amount of opium, three times a day ; and in some 

 severe cases, to bleed. If the swelling of the bowels is great, an 

 injection should be thrown up, consisting of half an ounce of 

 spirit of turpentine, and the same of castor oil, mixed in half a 

 pint of warm gruel. If, on the other hand, the mucous membrane 

 is attacked, and there is diarrhoea, then it must be checked with 

 chalk-mixture and laudanum as often as the bowels are moved 

 and in sufficient doses to stop it, let those doses be ever so large. 



