There is a species of spasmodic colic with which puppies are often attacked. The little animals are uneasy and fidgety, shifting their posture and place, hiding themselves in corners, looking at their sides, and crying as they run. It attacks them at all ages; but from one month to three they are most exposed to it. If it is neglected, it is.usually fatal, and examination after death shows an intussusception, or receiving of one part of the small intestines within another. This causes an evident and insuperable objection to the passage of the faeces; at the same time it shows the fearful degree of painful spasm that must have taken place.

The cure for it, and an almost certain one, is the exhibition of the aperient mixture (Recipe No. 29, p. 198), in doses apportioned to the size of the dog, and given morning, noon, and night, until the bowels are well opened, a slightly aperient action being kept up by occasional doses afterwards. If the spasm does not soon yield to the mixture, a warm bath will often be serviceable, both in relieving the pain and preparing the bowels to act.

Inflammation of the bowels.- Inflammation of the muscular or peritoneal coat does not happen so frequently as the food and habits of the animal would lead one to suspect. One of the most frequent causes of it is costive-ness. It is difficult to fix on the precise symptoms of this-complaint. The dog is frequently bringing his stomach in contact with the floor, while his hind parts are elevated; he is feverish; the countenance is anxious; the belly tucked up, and hot and painful when touched; and the pulse, although small, is hard and wiry.

This disease requires bleeding, a warm bath, the aperient mixture, and low diet The aperient mixture will be of far more service than any combination of aloes and calomel, or any other drastic purgative.

Of the varieties of diarrhaea that of distemper is the most to be dreaded, and too frequently bids defiance to all medicine. This has been treated of under distemper.

Next in obstinacy and serious consequences is bilious diarrhoea. The dog is even more subject to an increased secretion of bile than is the human Being, and, on account of its stimulating and acrid character, inflammation of the mucous coat of the intestines is speedily produced. It is usually preceded and often accompanied by obstinate sickness. A great quantity of bile mingles with the faeces; the stools are in a manner composed of bile; they are evacuated with a great deal of pain; there is rapid prostration of strength; and the dog soon sinks under the disease.

The treatment of bilious inflammation and purging is often difficult. The aperient mixture (Recipe No. 29, p. 198) is first indicated, unless the purging is very profuse and blood mingles with the fasces, in which case the syrup of buckthorn must be omitted. As soon as the purging is a little restrained, that which will act on the cause of the disturbance of the bowels must be given.

Recipe (No.34). Powder For Bilious Inflammation

Take - Calomel, eight grains;

Antimonial powder, four grain*;

Powdered opium, one grain : Mix together, and divide into powders.

Give one or two of these, according to the size of the dog, morning, noon, and night.

One of the most distressing circumstances attending this disease is an incessant vomiting. A little boiled milk, with one drop of laudanum in it, will sometimes quiet the stomach; but if that fails, it is not often that any thing else will succeed. The following ball may, however, be tried: -

Recipe (No. 35). Ball For Incessant Vomiting

Take - Powdered chalk, one ounce;

Powdered colombo-root, half an ounce: Make Into a male with thick syrup of poppies, and give from half a drachm to a drachm, according to the size of the dog, two or three Petted dogs are very subject to piles, produced by the stimulating nature of their food, and the costiveness to which they are subject. The dog frequently licks his anus, or drags it along the carpet; there is considerable swelling and tenderness of the part; a little matter often oozes out when it is pressed upon, and blood follows, not mingles with, the stools.

Present costiveness must be removed by the castor-oil mixture; a little sweet oil or pomatum should be smeared over the part, or introduced up the anus with the tip of the little finger, and an alterative ball (Recipe No. 3, p. 147) given every morning.

A considerable tumour sometimes arises by the side of the anus, and is to be attributed to the same causes. It is exceedingly painful - swells to a very considerable size - is at first of an intense red colour, but becomes dark and purple, and, at length, breaks, and discharges a great quantity of thick bloody pus, leaving a large and deep ulcer. The tumour is a species of carbuncle. The ulcer will readily heal, if the bowels are kept open by means of the aperient mixture (Recipe No. 29, p. 198), and the astringent lotion (Recipe No. 18, p. 180) applied to the wound.

Very great attention should afterwards be paid to the feeding of the dog, and the proper state of the bowels. The alterative balls (Recipe No. 3, p. 147) will be useful, and an occasional meal of boiled bullock's liver should be allowed; otherwise the tumour will return, and, at length, degenerate into an ulcer of a cancerous nature, which will spread and corrode and destroy the dog.

To this chapter belongs an accident which occasionally happens to young dogs that are delicate and subject to frequent purging, viz. protrusion of the rectum. The part should be cleaned with warm water, and then returned as gently as possible. The purging should be stopped by means of the aperient mixture, without the syrup of buckthorn; if there is much tenesmus, a little of the same mixture, mixed with gruel, should be administered as an injection; the anus should be afterwards frequently bathed with cold water, and proper means taken to strengthen the constitution of the dog.