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abdomen, and a very temporary constipation, early giving place 

 to diarrhoea. If however the inflammation is confined to the 

 rectum and floating colon, constipation may persist. There are 

 intermittent colics, frequent lying down and rising, or rising on 

 the hind limbs only and when the belly is handled the patient 

 may whine. The mouth is sour, hot, clammy, and red, and the 

 dorsum of the tongue furred. The nose is dry and burning, the 

 eyes congested, sunken and watery. 



The faeces may be early soft or liquid and bilious, then as the 

 defecations increase they pass through shades of gray to black or 

 reddish black from the admixture of effused blood, and show 

 bubbles and foetor. Vomiting is usually an early symptom (sep- 

 tic matters in septic poisoning) and as the disease advances there 

 is much fruitless straining and even protrusion of the congested 

 and excoriated rectum. Icterus is common from infection of the 

 gall ducts or the absorption of toxins into the portal vein. 

 Weakness and debility amounting even to paresis may appear in 

 the end. 



In chronic cases there are emaciation and debility, unthrifty 

 hair and skin, cutaneous eruptions, pallor of the mucosae, foetid 

 breath, foul teeth and tongue, with irregular appetite, alternate 

 constipation and diarrhoea, and, in case of implication of the 

 •duodenum and liver, icterus. The abdomen is retracted and 

 tender. 



Course. In strong vigorous dogs a spontaneous recovery is the 

 rule, which is greatly favored by elimination through vomiting 

 and purging. Fatal cases occur in puppies, in old, debilitated 

 animals, or in such as have disease of the heart, lungs, or liver. 

 Relapses are common and dangerous. 



Treatment. Mild cases may respond to a purely dietetic treat- 

 ment. Boiled milk, hot soup, or well cooked mush, and biscuit, 

 are indicated, and with y 2 oz. castor oil and 5 to 10 drops lauda- 

 num may suffice for treatment. 



In the more severe cases, 'with some icterus, calomel 1 to 2 grs. 

 with the oil, or with manna 5 drs. may be followed by emollient 

 or soapy injections, and a warm bath or fomentations, the body 

 being afterward carefully dried and warmly covered. This may 

 he followed by a mustard poultice. 



The usual antiseptics (salol 10 grs., naphthol 20 grs., creoline 



