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croton oil, Epsom salts, castor-oil, cathartic mixture. Preparation 

 for physic. Emetics i salt with mustard is a common emetic, 

 tartar emetic, calomel. Vermifuges : areca nut, oil of turpentine, 

 santonin, calomel, kousso, hellebore, filix mas. Stimulants, Seda- 

 tives, and Narcotics: opium; differences between the action of 

 certain agents on the dog and on man ; chloroform. Anesthetics : 

 administration ; Gruby on the effects of ether on dogs. Relation 

 of doses for dogs to those for horses. Subcutaneous injection of 

 medicines. External Applications and Minor Surgery : blisters, 

 firing, setons, fomentations j baths, warm, cold ; washing, bleeding, 

 rough means'for local bleeding; bandaging, muzzling. Leading 

 differences between canine and veterinary surgery , 14 — 2 



CHAPTER III.— DISEASES OP THE BLOOD. 



General remarks. SPECIFIC DISORDERS: Rabies. Its import- 

 ance in relation to public health. Symptoms to be studied only in 

 relation to diagnosis. Liability of owners for acts of dogs known 

 to be mad. Diagnosis. Varieties of the disorder. Bouley's rule. 

 Excessive affection suspicious. Fury. Escape and journeying. 

 Attack. The water fallacy. Peculiar expression, especially in 

 the dumb form. Bone-in-the-throat fallacy. State of appetite. 

 Influence of sex. The eye of a mad dog. Digestive and sexual 

 derangements. Alteration in voice. Local irritation. Blaine's 

 views on temporary localisation of the virus. Post-mortem dia- 

 gnosis. Mistake in prompt slaughter of a dog which has bitten a 

 man. Incubation. Lesions of alimentary and respiratory organs. 

 Of nervous centra. Accessory observations. The eye changes in 

 rabies by Siedamgrotzsky. On the minute changes of the nerve- 

 centres, by Coats, Gowers, and Kolessnikow. Pasteur's researches 

 on the virulence of the substance of nerve-centra. Diagnostic 

 inoculation of rabies to rabbits and birds. The differential dia- 

 gnosis of rabies ; popular errors ; distemper, fits, canker of the 

 ear, tetanus, &c. Appliances for seizure of mad dog. Prophylaxis. 

 Means of conveyance of the disease. Post-mortem examinations^ 

 precautions in. Destruction of carcass. Curative treatment un- 

 successful. Possibility of fortifying the constitution against it 

 not unlikely. Pasteurean system of rabies' inoculation. Extermi- 

 nation of dogs (note on skunk bite), dogs' homes, quarantine, and 

 other measures of repression, valuable but limited in efficacy. 

 Breed most liable to convey the disease. Muzzling. Bourrel's 

 operation of blunting the teeth. Measures in case of actual inflic- 

 tion of a bite by a mad dog. If the patient be a dog and has not 

 since bitten a man. Chances of the animal not developing the 



