INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS. 
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At the same time give clysters until the medicine ope¬ 
rates. 
Sometimes costiveness is mistaken for the animals bowei's 
being in a lax state. This is when the animal passes its 
fseces in small balls, accompanied by a quantity of mucous 
matter; but this is a sure sign of the bowels being really 
bound up. 
When inflammation has its origin in cold, accompanied 
by panting, heat, and thirst, and the dog is very restless, 
and the stomach will not retain the food, accompanied 
by heat in the belly, redness of the eyeballs, and there 
is an alternation of hotness and coldness of the nose, and 
the dog groans, it may be inferred that the inflamma¬ 
tion is considerable; bleeding must, therefore, be had re¬ 
course to immediately, and clysters of castor-oil, with from 
fifteen to twenty drops of laudanum in them, according to 
the size of the dog. If the bowels become costive, they 
must be kept open with the following purgative, until the 
dog recovers. 
Jalap . . 5 grains, 
Aloes, powdered . . 1 grain. 
If bile is the cause of inflammation, which will be known 
by the animal vomiting a dark yellow, or blackish matter, and 
without the bowels being much affected in either way, the 
following aperient must be given :— 
Calomel ... 3 grains, 
Compound extract of colocynth 3 grains, 
made up in the form of a pill, and put down the animal's 
throat. One may be given every fifteen hours, until cured. 
If the evacuations are accompanied with blood, and the 
bowels in a naturally loose condition, laxatives must not be 
had recourse to, but the following used *- 
