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ON EPIZOOTIC INFLAMMATION. 
I have never attempted it, as the state of the animal and the cha¬ 
racter of the disease I have been treating have never seemed to 
admit of it. Irritating frictions for the skin may be tried, al¬ 
though there is little or no hope of cure. 
With regard to general treatment, the animal should be kept 
from all draughts, and in a moderate and not too warm tempera¬ 
ture; his food should be chiefly composed of mucilaginous sub¬ 
stances, and his drink should be acidulated. 
Post-mortem Examination ,'—The whole exterior of the body 
shews great emaciation. The skin, particularly on those parts 
which are white and without much hair, is of a dark yellow colour; 
the mucous membrane is pale yellow or dirty. When the skin is 
raised, its vessels appear to be filled with black thick venous • 
blood ; the cellular tissue is yellow, and the muscles very pale. 
In the abdomen there is a very perceptible yellow shade over 
the fatty mesentery and caul, and all the intestines, and on the 
peritoneum, and particularly on that portion of it nearest to the 
liver. On the outer covering of the liver are seen, in one or 
more places, bright yellow or darker spots where the inflamma¬ 
tion has produced an exudation of a lymphatic watery bloody 
matter; and these places are softer, and not so resisting to the 
touch, as the remaining unaffected brown red parts. 
The gall-bladder contains a greenish brown fluid, which some¬ 
times is so consistent that it might be cut with a knife. In the 
stomach is occasionally found a considerable effusion of blood 
and general inflammation. 
The other organs of the abdomen and chest seldom differ from 
their normal state. 
Magazin fur die gesammte Thierheilkundej 1838, page 311. 
We select this essay as affording a curious example of the dif¬ 
ferent diseases, and the different characters of the same dis¬ 
ease, in different countries. Acute inflammation of the liver 
is a rare malady in our country. As an epizootic, we have never 
observed it, except as connected with distemper, and that more 
in the greyhound than any other species of dogs, and in the 
great majority of cases proving fatal. Then it does assume a 
truly epidemic character; for if one case of it is seen, we may 
safely calculate on many following. When unconnected with 
distemper it is also a most fatal disease, and will yield only to 
bleeding, blistering, and purgative medicine, consisting of 
aloes with a small quantity of calomel. 
Chronic inflammation of the liver is a much more frequent 
disease. It is one of the curses of the petted dog. This 
