The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dogSewell, Alfred Joseph
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The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dog
Sewell, Alfred Joseph
Dogs -- Diseases -- Dictionaries
Chronic enteritis is a more common complaint; there is no temperature
as a rule, and the pulse is quiet, though it generally becomes very
weak as the disease advances. The appetite is not entirely gone, but
is very bad, and what is taken is often vomited, mixed with a quantity
of frothy mucus. When the food eaten is solid, and it is not vomited,
then it generally passes through the patient in an undigested state with
some mucus. The motions are copious and frequent, sometimes there is
diarrhœa, at other times the motions are formed and hard. There is pain
on pressure of the abdomen, and the coils of intestines may easily be
felt as the coats of the bowels are generally much thickened—the result
of the chronic inflammation. The patient becomes very anæmic and wasted,
the breath is foul, ulcers may form in the mouth, and the tongue is of a
rusty red colour.
_Treatment_: In the acute form a small dose of castor oil mixed with from
two to fifteen drops of laudanum,[1] and repeated in two or three days
if necessary. If there is diarrhœa, give from three[1] to fifteen grains
of carbonate of bismuth three or four times a day; also from two to ten
drops of chlorodyne[1] in water three or four times a day; when there is
much pain hot linseed meal poultices may be applied to the abdomen. The
diet should consist principally of milk—plain or with Benger’s food—a
little meat juice may be added. Later, scraped lean raw meat may be given.
The treatment of chronic cases is tedious, a cure is often difficult,
and under the best circumstances it takes many weeks of careful dieting
before improvement occurs.
The following powders to be given with or after food:—
_Recipe_:
Ingluvin, 1 drachm.
Carbonate Bismuth, 2 drachms.
Powdered Nux Vomica, 6 grains.
Mix.
Divide into 12, 24, or 48 powders[1]—one to be given three times a day.
The diet should consist principally of unboiled milk, given plain or with
Benger’s food, or beaten up with the white of an egg, and the quantity
of course must vary according to the size of the dog, say from half[1]
a pint to two quarts a day. Later, when the motions seem normal and the
condition of the tongue improves, scraped lean raw meat may be given in
small quantities.
=Epilepsy=:
_Symptoms_: An attack generally occurs quite suddenly; dog falls uttering
perhaps a loud cry, is violently convulsed, champs his jaws, and froths
at the mouth, and is unconscious. The attack generally lasts about half a
minute, when the dog looks around him in a sort of dazed condition, and
then often bolts off, not knowing where he is going to. Often one attack
is followed by more, so it is important that the dog should be put in
a place of security as quickly as possible, a good sized hamper is as
good as anything. During the convulsions of epilepsy or just after, the
patient unknowingly will bite his owner or anyone else, but there is no
danger from such a bite.
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