IN THE TREATMENT OF DISTEMPER IN DOGS. 
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canal were in the state just mentioned, and the diarrhoea with 
difficulty suppressed, I have used the compound powder of ipeca- 
cuanha in very small doses, giving in the intervals the solution of 
quinine, and have found in them two valuable agents. 
From this I was led to try the same remedy in the foregoing 
complaint of the dog, in which the stomach, &c. shewed so much 
irritability ; but in this form of the disease, I must confess, I have 
not been so successful as in the catarrhal variety, or where the 
mucous membrane of the nostrils, &c., shewed more the seat of 
the disorder. 
This disease assuming such a variety of symptoms, and, at 
times, requiring different modes of treatment, by being neglected 
in its earlier stages, and having spun out my paper so much 
further than I intended, and it not being my intention to discuss 
the question, but only to give a summary account of my mode of 
treatment, I must conclude by wishing you and The VETERINA- 
RIAN good luck in all that you do. 
I have made no mention of the dietetic mode of treatment : 
this, however, was done intentionally, as I imagined that every 
practitioner would be able to direct that part himself; and also, be- 
cause there are plenty of works far superior upon this point to 
any that my feeble powers could produce. 
THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
By J. Grellier, Esq., M.R.C.S. 
(Continued from p. 164.) 
The Liver and its Diseases. 
The liver is the largest gland in the body. Its situation is on 
the right side, under the stomach, and its function is to produce 
bile for the purpose of assisting digestion and increasing the 
worm-like motion of the intestines, by which their contents are con- 
veyed from the body. 
There is a peculiarity in the supply of blood to this gland which 
is not found in any other instance. I have before mentioned, that 
the fluids produced in the body were obtained from arteries, that 
is, from blood flowing from the heart, and generally through the 
medium of glands, as saliva from the salivary glands, tears from 
the lachrymal glands, semen from the testes, &c. ; while the liver 
alone cannot separate bile but from venous blood. The vein which 
