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monia may be given three or four times daily with the 

 water drunk, or in case of gi-eat dullness and debility an 

 ounce of oil of turpentine, sulphuric ether, sweet spirits oJ 

 nitre, or carbonate of ammonia may be given as well. 

 Great tenderness of the belly may be met by persistent 

 hot fomentations, and mustard poultices, and if necessary 

 by half drachm doses of opium. Tympany is treated 

 by hand rubbing and by aromatic ammonia or oil of pep- 

 permint. During recovery 3 or 4 ozs. of tincture of gen- 

 tian or cinchona may be given twice daily with muriate of 

 iron and stimulants. Feed throughout on Soft bran mashes, 

 shced roots, boiled oats or barley, green grass, oil-cake, 

 etc., giving from the hand if necessaiy. Secure pure air 

 and water, cleanliness, warm clothing and general comfort 

 until restored to health. 



CAKINE DISTEMPEK. 



A specific fever of the young domestic carnivora, affect- 

 ing the respiratory organs, and it may be the abdominal 

 viscera, the brain, the muscular system and joints, or the 

 skin. One attack usually jorotects from a second. 



Causes. Connected, like strangles, with domestication, 

 it is most severe on pet dogs kept in hot, close rooms on 

 spiced food, or confined in kennels. Change of chmate, 

 teething, and contagion are other causes. 



Synvptoms. DuUness, peevishness, loss of appetite, dry 

 nose, watery eyes, elevated temperature, increased pulse 

 (110 to 120), sensitiveness to cold, shivering, cough and 

 glairy or yellowish discharge from the nose. The cough 

 becomes paroxysmal and often followed by vomiting, the 

 matter not being hcked up again, the breathing is dis- 

 turbed, and the chest sounds on auscultation and percus- 

 sion imply disease there. The animal is weak, debil- 

 itated and emaciated, and diarrhoea, ulceration of the 

 mouth, and nervous symptoms usually precede death. 



The complications are marked by symptoms of bronchi- 

 tis, pneumonia, enteritis, hepatitis, conjunctivitis, phre- 



