68 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



Constipation is most safely overcome with tepid water 

 enemas. The return to solid food should be gradual, and 

 that which is given easy of digestion and plain. 



Chrojiic or Sub-acute Gastritis is much more frequently 

 met with in dogs than the former. 



Causes. — Protracted dyspepsia, constipation, unwhole- 

 some and indigestible food, or it may be a sequel to acute 

 gastritis. 



Symptoms. — Tenderness over the region of the stomach, 

 frequent eructations, vomiting after meals, furred tongue, 

 bowels usually constipated, and often there is a dry 

 cough. 



Treatment. — Bicarbonate of soda and charcoal as advised 

 in indigestion, an occasional aperient of aloes and 

 rhubarb, with the same description of food named in the 

 preceding form of the disease, are the measures to be 

 adopted. 



INVERSION OF THE STOMACH, 



This is of rare occurrence in the dog, perhaps more so 

 than might be expected, considering the frequency of and 

 susceptibility to vomiting. 



From tlie " Abstract of the Proceedings of the Veterinary 

 Medical Association for 1838-9." 



"Mr. Ainslie laid before the Association a singular 

 specimen of inversion of the stomach in the dog. The 



the tenderness of the stomach is more due to the extent and severity of 

 these lesions than to the exalted impressibility of the nervous system, 

 the diet must often be exceedingly rigid, being limited to some of the 

 most bland and soft or liquid articles of food, such as milk, arrowroot, 

 gruel or beef-tea, which can sometimes only be tolerated when given in 

 the smallest quantities at a time, such as a tablespoonful or a teaspoon- 

 ful. In cases in which acidity prevails, one-third part of lime-water is 

 advantageously added. When these small quantities are given, they 

 must be repeated every ten or twenty minutes with occasional longer 

 intervals, and if insufficient to support the patient, injections of good 

 beef lea, in addition, be thrown into the rectum." 



