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ten grains given morning and evening. If the vomition 
can be arrested, the use of vegetable tonics, as gentian 
or quinine, will be called for, and, in chronic cases, nux 
vomica in small and repeated doses. 
Gastritis, or /xflammation of the Stomach of a true 
character, is seen only in connection with poisoning by 
irritants. 
The Symptoms greatly resemble those of indigestion, 
developing slowly, and consist of thirst, fever, a habit of 
licking cool objects, depraved appetite, and subsequently 
frequent vomition. Pain is evinced by frequent whining, 
restlessness, moving from one place or position to 
another, and by stretching at full length, to present the 
abdomen to the ground. Pressure over the stomach 
causes pain; the pulse is accelerated and small, and 
animal temperature is increased. The mouth“and tongue 
are dry, dirty and foul, breath offensive, mucous mem- 
branes injected, and vomition proceeds first by the 
ejection of simple fluid, which occasionally contains 
blood. 
Treatment.—Precise measures consist of the adminis- 
tration of an agent which by chemical union with the 
poison renders it inert, details of which will be given 
under Poisons. Frequent draughts of soothing muci- 
laginous and alkaline ‘solutions are advisable, and the 
application of counter-irritants, as mustard, in the form of 
plasters, is indispensable. With full abatement of all 
the symptoms, the animal enters upon the stage of con- 
valescence, when vegetable tonics and alkalies will serve 
to promote sound recovery, during which the greatest 
care must be exercised in feeding. 
Ulceration of the Stomach is occasionally seen as 
the result of malnutrition dependent upon wasting dis- 
eases, as distemper, or bad and insufficient food, with 
confinement in unsanitary places. The condition of 
defective health thus induced also secures the existence 
of other local evidences, the cornea being the common 
seat of the disease. 
Foreign Bodies in the Stomach of the dog are 
common. Their name also is legion and we cannot 
