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3^ day. — Symptoms the same, but she is very cross to her 
puppies. Gave sulphur, and fomented the bag. 
4 tli day. — Very anxious and uneasy: she looked often for a 
fresh place to lie down upon. Gave more sulphur. She barked 
distressingly, with only short intervals of rest. 
5th day. — Very weak, often looking sharply back at her loins, 
as if stung by some insect. About mid-day she had a slimy 
evacuation, with worms. Cross to her master when interfered 
with, and inclined to be sick from the commencement. 
6th day. — Free evacuations of urine. Still very cross to her 
puppies, and almost incessantly barking. There is difficulty in 
swallowing. 
1th day. — Similar symptoms till about three o’clock ; she then 
slept for two hours, and, on afterwards drenching her with gruel, it 
choaked her. 
On opening her after death, the lungs were found to be a little 
inflamed, and the windpipe and air-cells of lungs filled with frothy 
mucus. The stomach was quite empty. The bowels, particularly 
the lower part, contained a copper-coloured fluid. There was no 
discharge from the eyes or nostrils during the whole illness. 
Case II. 
Aug. 30, 1847. — This was a bitch puppy that was taken ill about 
a month after the old bitch died. 
Symptoms. 
Monday. — In the morning very anxious and irritable ; cross with 
other dogs ; fondled with her master, and wanted to be nursed : 
toward night she grew weak, and during the night barked inces- 
santly. 
Tuesday. — Very sick and irritable ; barked only at intervals. 
I gave an emetic. After she had been sick, towards night she 
became more quiet. Gave gruel, and put a seton in her throat : 
afterwards an evacuation, natural in appearance. 
Wednesday morning , six o'clock. — Dead. She had not been 
cross at the latter part of her illness. No discharge from the eyes 
or nose. The balls of the eyes turned backwards towards the 
head. On opening the body, the lungs were nearly clear; no 
mucus ; the stomach slightly inflamed, the intestines highly so : in 
one place, about the middle, the gut was thickened about the six- 
teenth of an inch. 
