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HEPATITIS IN A TERRIER. 
9^A.—Much better. Pulse improved in character; bowels more 
regular, and less tender on pressure. Continue treatment. . 
\0th .—He seems to be going on very well, except that he has 
not quite his usual spirits. Continue treatment. 
Wth .—He is regaining strength; he eats more than half a pound 
of solid meat daily; the fseces are not quite regular; and the re¬ 
spiration continues a little disturbed. Medicine as before. 
Y^th .—-Very much better : he can now walk out a short distance 
with his mistress; the breathing is more tranquil; pulse much im¬ 
proved in character; bowels open, and the tenderness nearly gone. 
Continue medicine. 
—He continues to improve gradually. Administer daily 
the following pill:— 
R Ilyd. chlor. half a grain 
Gcntianae pulv. 5 grains 
Antimonialis pulv. 1 grain 
Aloes pulv. 3 grains. 
Yith .—-Discontinue treatment. 
20/fA.—Saw the terrier this day, and he is now in perfect health, 
and very playful. I send the above case for your opinion as to its 
treatment. 
[Mr. Rolfe asks my opinion of the treatment. I will tell him can¬ 
didly. There was a great deal of decision, of acuteness, of judg¬ 
ment, of patient observation, and adaptation of medicine to the 
changing character of the disease i but I have one fault to find 
with him, which it requires all these favourable circumstances to 
induce me to forgive—the outrageous exhibition of the cciloTnBi, 
He may depend upon it, that, as a dog medicine, it is one of the 
most dangerous drugs with which he can meddle, and except as 
an emetic, and now and then as a vermifuge, it does a hundred 
times more harm than good. The single dose of the sulphate of 
magnesia was of more service than all the calomel, and its good 
effects were nearly ruined by the return to the poison on the fol¬ 
lowing day. The blue pill, or the blue ointment, are now and 
then admissible—they would have done good here; but the cases 
are few and far between, in which, if used in considerable quan¬ 
tities, calomel does not injure or destroy. Still, I repeat that, 
under all circumstances, I give Mr. Rolfe much credit for his 
treatment of the case. He asked my opinion, and he has had it, 
and an honest one.—Y.] 
