45 6 INFLAMMATIONS. 



are a constant and evidently painful straining to vomit, with an 

 intense thirst, dry hot nose, quick breathing, and an attitude 

 which is peculiar, the animal lying extended on the floor, with his 

 belly in contact with the ground ; and in the intervals of the retch- 

 ing, licking anything cold within reach. The treatment consists 

 in bleeding, if the attack is very violent ; calomel and opium, of 

 each a grain, in a pill every four hours ; and two drops of the 

 diluted hydrocyanic acid in a little distilled water following each. 

 Thin gruel or arrowroot may be given occasionally in very small 

 quantities, but until the vomiting ceases they are of little service. 

 If poison has clearly been swallowed, the appropriate treatment 

 must be adopted. 



Chronic gastritis is only another name for one of the forms of 

 dyspepsia, for the symptoms and treatment of which see p. 490. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER (Hepatitis, or Yellows). 



This is one of the most common of the diseases to which sport- 

 ing dogs are subject, in consequence of the exposure to cold and 

 wet which they are subjected to, producing congestion of the 

 liver, and this going on to inflammation. Dogs deprived of exer- 

 cise also contract it, because their livers first becoming torpid the 

 bile accumulates, and then, in 6rder to get rid of it, nature estab- 

 lishes an action which ends in inflammation. The symptoms are a 

 yellow state of the white of the eye and skin generally, from which 

 the disease is commonly called "the yellows." 



Acute hepatitis comes on rapidly, and with a good deal of fever, 

 generally showing itself on the day after a long exposure to wet 

 and cold, as in shooting or hunting. The dog shivers, his nose is 

 hot, his breathing is slightly quicker than usual, and his pulse 

 quick, small and wiry. The bowels are confined, and when moved. 



