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appeared to have a trifling discliarge of saliva. 

 All this time, however, the dog was not only 

 sensible, but even in good spirits ; and evidently- 

 experienced little pain. He died from want of 

 food ; not being able to swallow. The lungs, the 

 liver, and indeed all those parts of the animal 

 organization were unaffected ; and they manifested 

 not the slightest symptoms of disease. A similar 

 remark will apply to all parts of the throat, and 

 also to the brain. The only affection that could 

 be discovered was in the salivary glands, which 

 were triflingly swelled. The disorder was evi- 

 dently a glandular affection, which rendered the 

 animal incapable of swallowing sustenance. Had 

 food been conveyed to the stomach by means of a 

 tube, the dog might perhaps have recovered. 



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This disease is often fatal to dogs — more so than 

 the distemper, in comparison to the number of 

 animals attacked by it. My father, in one of his 

 works, says it is a disease seldom met with out of 

 the kennel. From its appearance it is not un- 

 reasonable to suppose that it bears some affinity 

 to the jaundice in the human subject. I do not 

 think it infectious, like the mange ; and the fact 



