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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Among
other
causes,
we
find
the
eating
of
indigestible
food,
drinking
foul
or
tainted
water,
too
much
green
food,
raw
paunches,
foul
kennels,
and
damp,
draughty
kennels.
Symptoms--The
purging
is,
of
course,
the
principal
symptom,
and
the
stools
are
either
quite
liquid
or
semi-fluid,
bilious-looking,
dirty-brown
or
clay-coloured,
or
mixed
with
slimy
mucus.
In
some
cases
they
resemble
dirty
water.
Sometimes,
as
already
said,
a
little
blood
will
be
found
in
the
dejection,
owing
to
congestion
of
the
mucous
membrane
from
liver
obstruction.
In
case
there
be
blood
in
the
stools,
a
careful
examination
is
always
necessary
in
order
to
ascertain
the
real
state
of
the
patient.
Blood,
it
must
be
remembered,
might
come
from
piles
or
polypi,
or
it
might
be
dysenteric,
and
proceed
from
ulceration
of
the
rectum
and
colon.
In
the
simplest
form
of
diarrhoea,
unless
the
disease
continues
for
a
long
time,
there
will
not
be
much
wasting,
and
the
appetite
will
generally
remain
good
but
capricious.
In
bilious
diarrhoea,
with
large
brown
fluid
stools
and
complete
loss
of
appetite,
there
is
much
thirst,
and
in
a
few
days
the
dog
gets
rather
thin,
although
nothing
like
so
rapidly
as
in
the
emaciation
of
distemper.
The
Treatment
will,
it
need
hardly
be
said,
depend
upon
the
cause,
but
as
it
is
generally
caused
by
the
presence
in
the
intestine
of
some
irritating
matter,
we
can
hardly
err
by
administering
a
small
dose
of
castor
oil,
combining
with
it,
if
there
be
much
pain--which
you
can
tell
by
the
animal's
countenance--from
5
to
20
or
30
drops
of
laudanum,
or
of
the
solution
of
the
muriate
of
morphia.
This
in
itself
will
often
suffice
to
cut
short
an
attack.
The
oil
is
preferable
to
rhubarb,
but
the
latter
may
be
tried--the
simple,
not
the
compound
powder--dose
from
10
grains
to
2
drachms
in
bolus.
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