318 =The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
frequently given with success. The addition of quinine is 
often useful. 
A mustard poultice applied over the region of the liver 
in severe cases, affords considerable relief, and at the onset 
is of especial service. 
The diet should be plain and light ; milk, with one-third 
its quantity of lime-water, is most suitable until an improve- 
ment in the symptoms is observed. 
When the disease extends to the bowels—which, in 
neglected cases of distemper, or even in those most 
assiduously attended, it frequently does—a violent form of 
diarrhoea or dysentery sets in. The feces are dark, 
streaked with blood, and offensive; the patient rapidly 
wastes, has a sickening odour, and speedily dies, often, 
under even the most energetic and judicious treatment. 
A mild dose of oil (linseed or salad) is generaliy 
at first advisable, and in three hours this is best followed up 
with antacids and astringents : 
I. Sodz Bicarb ............ 10 grains } 
Catechu Pulv. ......... Io , 1 Pill or Powder. 
itl Puls, ccmsuorcorenes a 
2. Cupri Sulph. ...... 5 to 10 grains 
Opii Pulv.. ..c..cc0ccece Boy, DG: 
3. Tannic Acid ...... 3to 5 , 
Opti Puls sseniventavers 2 Do. 
ZANGIDS§ se manwsiacieimeiacione Io , 
In severe cases, the last prescription (No. 3) is the most 
effectual. Should the purging continue, and symptons of 
pain be manifested, hot linseed-meal poultices applied 
to the abdomen afford relief, and materially assist in 
checking enteritis. Starch enemas are likewise serviceable 
The diet should consist of strong beef-tea, in which isin- 
glass or gum arabic has been dissolved in proportions 
to: make it sufficiently mucilaginous to shield the living 
membrane of the stomach and intestines. 
With regard to the so-called “distemper fits,” it is 
