274 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



attack mostly yields to treatment. The third is less cer- 

 tain, and so is each following visitation ; the chances of 

 restoration being remote, just in proportion as the assault 

 is removed from the original affliction. 



DISEASES ATTENDANT ON DISORDERED BOWELS. 



EnEUMATISM. 



It appears almost laughable to talk about a rheumatic 

 dog ; but, in fact, the animal suffers quite as, or even 

 more acutely than the human patient, and both from the 

 same cause — 



ACUTE KHEUMATISM. 



over-indulgence ; still with this difference — the man 

 usually suffers from attachment to the bottle ; the dog 

 endures its misery from devotion to roaming under the 

 table. It is not an uncommon sight to behold an animal 

 so fat that it can hardly waddle, without scruple enjoying 

 its five meals a day ; which it takes with a bloated mis- 

 tress, who, according to lier own account, is kept alive 

 with the utmost difficulty by eating little and often. 



