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one or two grains of chloretone should be 

 administered. After the purgative has acted 

 bismuth subnitrate five grains may be given to 

 reduce irritability of the intestinal tract. Col- 

 lapse and depression in the later stages may be 

 combated by the hypodermic administration of 

 atropine sulphate in doses of l/lOOth of a 

 grain repeated as required or caffeine l/8th of 

 a grain repeated as needed; the patient should 

 be made comfortable and kept warm, using a 

 hot water bottle if required. The after treat- 

 ment consists in restricting the diet to easily 

 digestible and non-irritant foods, offered fre- 

 quently but in very small quantities at a time. 

 The other conditions and diseases of the 

 digestive canal of cats offer no important dif- 

 ferences from those of the dog, with the pos- 

 sible exception of the anal glands. In the dog 

 impaction of these glands is of frequent occur- 

 rence, but in the cat rather the exception. The 

 anal glands on the other hand are more fre- 

 quently the seat of neoplasms in the cat than 

 in the dog. 



Foreign Bodies in the Stomach 



Although with cats the tendency to swallow 

 objects that are not food is not so common as 

 it is in dogs, the variety of substances which 

 may be swallowed either intentionally or acci- 

 dentally while at play is so extensive as to pro- 



