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20 drops, creosote 7 drops, or naphthaline 20 grs.) may be given 

 with the laxative and should be given by both mouth and anus 

 several times daily, in combination with nitrate of bismuth. In 

 case of icterus give a mixture of calomel 5 grs., chalk 60 grs., in 

 doses of three to five grains three or four times a day. Or salicy- 

 late of soda (10 grs.) may be given at the same intervals. 



Quinia sulphate 5 grs., nux vomica i gr., tannic acid i gr. , or 

 silver nitrate ^ to i gr. , or iron chloride 3 to 5 grs. , may be em- 

 ployed when the bowels are much relaxed. Injections of well 

 boiled rice or starch, or of gum or .slippery elm, may be employed 

 as adjuvants. 



HEMORRHAGIC GASTRO-KNTERITIS OF THE DOG. 



Definition. Causes : Spring, toxins, irritants, inflammation. Symptoms: 

 Vomiting, diarrhoea, pendent head, arched back, retracted belly, black , 

 bloody glairy frothing faeces, circulation excited, mucosae red, yellow, or 

 brown, death in two or three days. Diagnosis. Lesions ; Stomach and 

 intestines empty, mucosa of a dark blood red, thickened, liver and kidneys 

 congested. Treatment : Little successful, intestinal disinfection, elimina- 

 tion, laxatives, wet compresses, enemata, heart stimulants, ergot, iron 

 chloride. 



Definition. A special form of septic enteritis, occurring as an 

 epizootic and not transmissible by ingestion. 



Causes. These are not well known. Occurring in a few dogs at 

 one time in the same place, and time (by preference in spring) and 

 then disappearing for months, and not being appreciably communi- 

 cable by contagion or ingestion, it has the aspect of being caused by 

 poisons, probably of the nature of toxins taken in with the food 

 or water. Preexisting inflammation has been alleged as a pre- 

 disposing cause, the attack having followed superpurgatiou, or 

 the administration of a handful of salt. Guinard found that the 

 intravenous injection of tuberculin, mallein and other products of 

 microbian growth produced le.sions analogous to those of this 

 disease. 



Symptoms. The attack is usually sudden. The dog is seized 

 with vomiting and diarrhoea and stands with head depressed, 

 back arched and belly tucked up. The vomit is at first of 

 alimentary matters, then of glairy mucus, or black and blood- 



