CHAPTER IV. 
DISEASES OF THE STOMACH. 
INDIGESTION, GASTRITIS, 
VOMITING, _ INVERSION, 
WORMS, CALCULI IN THE STOMACH, 
HUSK, FOREIGN BODIES. 
INDIGESTION. 
THE stomach of the dog is not so liable to disease as might 
‘be expected, considering the source from which at times he 
derives his sustenance (see “ Feeding”), the morbid appe- 
tite that prompts him to devour strange and unnatural 
substanees, the long fasts he frequently endures, 
and the “get what you can” rule of diet. Nevertheless he 
is subject, and some dogs more than others, to the diseases: 
mentioned in this chapter, one of the most frequent of 
which is dyspepsia or indigestion, the causes operating in 
its production being much the same as in ourselves. Long 
fasts, innutritious and indigestible food, disease of the 
digestive organs, imperfect mastication, deficiency in the 
biliary, gastric, or salivary secretions, want of exercise, and: 
suspension in the alvine evacuations. 
Symptoms.—Flatuleney, acrid eructations, constipation or 
diarrhoea, fulness of the abdomen, spasmodic pains, de- 
pression, loss of appetite, dry furred tongue, thirst, often 
increased salivary secretion, vomiting, and occasionally 
cough, (See “ Husk.”) 
Treatment.—The system of feeding generally requires 
our first attention where the complaint is due to over-feed- 
ing, which is frequently the case with toy-dogs. Starvation 
for a. day, followed by a spare diet, and an aperient 
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