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MANUAL of modern farriery. 
water in the head, a disease to which young children are 
liable, from long-continued irritation in the stomach and 
bowels. 
These affections are accompanied by great irritability of 
the stomach, which discharges everything as soon as taken; 
and it not unfrequently happens that the poor animal ex¬ 
pires in one of these spasmodic affections. When the dis¬ 
temper reaches this degree of virulence, few dogs recover: 
but there have been instances where Blaine’s medicine has 
proved effectual, even in the worst stages of the disease. 
Dr. James’s powders have also, in extreme cases, produced a 
favourable change. Even in the worst cases the dog always 
retains its sanity, and will drink water, though certainly not 
very freely—two circumstances which will readily distin¬ 
guish the disease in question from canine madness. 
Remedies. —If this disease is attended to at its first ap¬ 
pearance, the after-symptoms may be greatly mitigated, by 
administering opening medicines, in small quantities, and 
persisting in their use; and afterwards in larger doses, as 
the disease makes progress. This will be found of the 
greatest consequence in all complaints where the mucous 
membrane is likely to be affected, which is almost invariably 
the case where there is inflammation of the lungs ; and was 
satisfactorily proved, by my late talented friend Dr. Macin¬ 
tosh, lecturer on the practice of physic, Edinburgh, to be a 
general accompaniment of all pulmonary diseases in the hu¬ 
man species. For this purpose I would recommend, so soon 
as the symptoms appear, to administer an ounce of castor- 
oil, and, after its operation has abated, the following bolus 
should be given :— 
Crocus metallorum, finely levigated 6 grains, 
White antimonial powder . . 6 grains, 
Diaphoretic calx of antimony . .10 grains: 
to be mixed up with treacle and lintseed meal into a ball 
