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of tubercular disease in the dog, that I cannot doubt its existence, 

 as an ordinary affection, and, since I know that hundreds die 

 every year from it, I cannot pass it over without notice. I have 

 seen the tubercules in almost every stage of softening, and have 

 known scores of cases in which a blood-vessel has given way,' 

 producing the condition known in the human being as " spitting 

 of blood," without any other attendant symptoms than those 

 which are seen in man. 



The symptoms of consumption are, a slow insidious cough, with- 

 out fever in the early stage, followed by emaciation, and ending 

 after some months in diarrhoea, or exhaustion from the amount of 

 expectoration, or in the bursting of a blood-vessel, which last is 

 generally the termination in those dogs that are kept for use, the 

 work to which they are subjected leading to excessive action of 

 the heart, which is likely to burst the vessel. In the latter stages 

 there is a good deal of constitutional fever, but it is seldom that 

 the dog lives long enough to show this condition, being either 

 destroyed as incurable, or dying rapidly from loss of blood or 

 diarrhoea. Treatment is of little use, as, though the attack may be 

 postponed, the disease cannot be cured, and no phthisical animal 

 should be bred from. Cod-liver oil is of just as much service as in 

 the human subject, but, as before remarked, it can only put off the 

 fatal result. Except; therefore, in the case of house-pets, it is nox 

 desirable to use it. The dose is from a teaspoonful to a table- 

 spoonful three times a day. 



GASTRITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 



This affection is, like all others of the same kind, either acute 

 or chronic. The former very rarely accurs except from poison, or 

 highly improper food, which has the same effect. The symptoms 



