In treating of the diseases of these animals, the companions and friends of man, the same order will be adopted that has been pursued in the pathology of the horse.

Of inflammation generally, it is unnecessary again to speak; and although there are many diseases which are connected with an inflammatory state of the brain, a case of pure phrenilis has rarely, if ever, been seen in the dog; nor is there any thing that bears strict resemblance to either vertigo or apoplexy. That which comes the nearest to them shall be the subject of the first chapter.