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ANIMAL PATHOLOGY. 
Rheumatism. — 1 do not know any animal so subject to rheu- 
matism as the dog, nor any one in which, if it is early and pro- 
perly treated, it is so manageable. A warm bath — perchance a 
bleeding — a dose or two of the castor oil mixture, and an embro- 
cation composed of spirit of turpentine, hartshorn, camphorated 
spirit, and laudanum, will usually remove it in two or three days ; 
unless it is complicated with muscular sprains or other lesions, as 
in the chest-founder of kennels. 
Chest-founder. — This is a singular complaint, and often a pest 
in kennels that are built in low situations, and where too much 
bad management prevails. Where the huntsman, or whippers-in, 
are too often in a hurry to get home, and turn their dogs into ihe 
kennel panting and hot — where the beds are not high enough 
from the floor, or the building, if it should be in a sufficiently 
elevated situation, yet has a northern aspect, and is unsheltered 
from the blast, chest-founder prevails, and I have known half 
the pack affected by it, after a severe run — the scent breast high, 
and the morning unusually cold. It frequently degenerates into 
palsy. You will often be consulted about this provoking muscular 
affection. Your advice will comprise comfort, dryness, attention 
to the bowels, attention to the exercise ground, and perhaps 
occasional setons ; and these inserted — not where the huntsman 
usually places them, on the withers above, but on the brisket 
below, and defended from the teeth of the dog by a roller of 
very simple construction passing round the chest, between the 
fore legs, and over the front of the shoulders on either side. 
Chest-founder in the Pointer. — The pointer, somewhat too 
heavy before and hardly worked, occasionally becomes what is 
called chest-foundered. From his very make it is evident that, in 
long continued and considerable exertion, the subscapular mus- 
cles will be liable, to sprain and inflammation. There will be 
inflammation of the fasciae, induration, loss of power, loss of 
nervous influence, and palsy. Cattle driven far and fast to the 
market suffer from the same cause. 
The Connexion between Rheumatism and Palsy. — There is no 
animal in which the connexion between rheumatism and palsy is 
so frequent, and, as it were, necessary, as in the dog. Whether 
or not I must refer it to inflammation of the ligaments of the 
vertebrae, or of the cord and its membranes, I know that, however 
easy it may be to subdue a rheumatic affection in its early stage, 
yet if neglected it very soon, in this animal, simulates, or be- 
comes essentially connected with, or converted into palsy. 
The Connexion between Intestinal Irritation and Palsy. — No 
animal presents a more striking illustration of the connexion 
between intestinal irritation and palsy than does the dog. He 
