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CHAPTER IV. 
INFLAMMATIONS. 
Definition of Inflammation—Symptoms and Treatment of Rabies, Tetantis, 
and Turnside—Of Inflammation of the Eye, Ear (canker), Mouth, and 
Nose—Of the Lungs—Of the Stomach—Of the Bowels—Of the Liver—Of 
the Kidneys and Bladder—Of the Skin. 
DEFINITION OF INFLAMMATION. 
INFLAMMATION consists in a retardation of the flow of blood in the 
small vessels, which requires an increased action of the large ones 
to overcome it. When external and visible, it is characterised 
by increased heat, swelling, pain, and redness, and internally by 
the first three, the last not being discoverable, though existing. 
It may be acute when coming on rapidly, or chronic when slow, and 
without very active symptoms. In the acute form there is always 
an increased rapidity of the pulse, with a greater reaction on the 
heart’s pulsations, known as hardness of the pulse. In the dog 
the healthy pulsations are from 90 to 100 in the minute, which 
may be taken. as the standard of health; the arterial pulse may 
be felt on the inside of the arm above the knee; or by putting the 
hand against the lower part of the chest the contractions of. the 
heart may be readily felt. In different breeds, however, there is 
considerable variation in the pulsations of the heart. 
HYDROPHOBIA, RABIES, OR MADNESS. 
This disease has been classed among the inflammations, although 
it has not been proved to arise from that cause; but ag it is 
generally supposed to be connected with an inflammation or con- 
gestion of the spinal column and brain, there is every reason for 
