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pleurisy, tartar emetic, calomel, and opium are the chief 

 remedies with or without digitalis, according to the power and 

 frequency of the pulse. In bronchitis, opium, ipecacuanha, and 

 rhubarb are the most beneficial, in the doses I have already given. 

 My limits will not allow me to go further into this section of the 

 diseases of the dog, which, to be well and minutely described, 

 would take ten times the space that can be afforded. 



PHTHISIS in the dog is exactly similar to its corresponding 

 disease in man. It comes on usually with slight cough, often 

 unattended with feverishness ; and with this there is evidently 

 a want of stamina and power, so that the dog, though, perhaps, 

 feeding well, is fatigued much sooner than usual. The cough 

 is sometimes subdued for a time, but soon returns, and the ex- 

 pectoration is yellow and lumpy, and sometimes tinged with blood. 

 This goes on frequently for months or years, until the constitution 

 is worn down or hemorrhage takes place and the dog dies from 

 exhaustion. It is one of the most common causes of the bursting 

 of a blood-vessel in a course, and this is sometimes the first 

 warning which the owner of a dog has of any disease, though 

 when death takes place the lungs are found studded with tubercles, 

 some one or more of which have softened, and thus destroyed 

 the walls of the blood-vessel, which has given way. The disease 

 is so incurable and so hereditary that it is scarcely worth while to 

 enter upon any curative measure. In slight cases for a temporary 

 purpose it would perhaps be desirable to try the effect of cod- 

 liver oil, which, no doubt, would postpone the termination for 

 some months, or longer, in the same way as in man. But as the 



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