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the tubercules in almost every stage of softening, and have known 
scores of cases in which a blood-vessel has given way, producing the 
condition known in the human being as “ spitting of blood,” without 
any other attendant symptoms than those which are seen in man. 
The symptoms of consumption are, a slow insidious cough, without 
fever in the early stage, followed by emaciation, and ending after 
some months in diarrhcea, or exhaustion from the amount of ex- 
pectoration, or in the bursting of a blood-vessel, which last is 
generally the termination in those dogs that are kept for use, the 
work to which they are subjected leading to excessive action of the 
heart, which is likely to burst the vessel. In the latter stages there 
is a good deal of constitutional fever, but it is seldom that the dog 
lives long enough to show this condition, being either destroyed as 
incurable or dying rapidly: from loss of blood or diarrhea. T'reat- 
ment is of little use, as, though the attack may be postponed, the 
disease cannot be cured, and no phthisical animal should be bred 
from. Cod-liver oil is of just as much service as in the human 
subject, but, as-before remarked, it can only put off the fatal result. 
Except, therefore, in the case of house-pets, it is not desirable’ to 
usé it. The dose is from a. teaspoonful to a tablespoonful three 
times a day. 
GASTRITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 
This affection is, like all others of the same kind, either acute or 
chronic. The former very rarely accurs except from poison or 
highly improper food, which has the same effect. The symptoms 
are a constant and evidently painful straining to vomit, with an 
intense thirst, dry hot nose, quick breathing, and an attitude which 
is peculiar, the animal lying extended on the floor, with his belly 
in contact with the ground, and in the intervals of the retching 
licking anything cold within reach. The treatment consists in 
bleeding, if the attack is very violent ; calomel and opium, of each 
a grain, in a pill every four hours; and two drops of the diluted 
hydrocyanic acid in a little distilled water following each. Thin 
gruel or arrowroot may be given occasionally in very small quan- 
tities, but until the vomiting ceases they are of little service. If 
poison has clearly been swallowed, the appropriate treatment must 
be adopted. < a * 
