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strengthening but entirely fluid. The -warm bath is 

 here highly injurious ; and bleeding or purging out of 

 the question. When the distension of the stomach 

 is so great as to threaten suffocation, the tube of 

 the stomach-pump may be introduced ; but, unless 

 danger be present, the practitioner ought to depend 

 upon the efforts of nature, to support which all his 

 measures should be directed. After recovery, meat 

 scraped as for potting, without any admixture of vege- 

 tables, must constitute the diet ; and while a sufficien- 

 cy is given, a very little only must be allowed at a 

 time. With these precautions the life may be pro- 

 longed, but the restoration of health is not to be ex- 

 pected. • 



GASTRITIS. 



Dogs are abused for their depraved tastes, and re- 

 proached for the filth they eat ; but if one of them, 

 being of a particular disposition in the article of food, 

 takes to killing his own mutton, he is knocked on the 

 head as too luxurious. It is a very vulgar mistake to 

 imagine the canine race have no preferences. They 



