The Dog

UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE THE DOG BY WILLIAM YOUATT HEAD OF BLOODHOUND LONDON CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO. 22LUDGATE STREET 1845 CHAPTER Y67 TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. THE EARLY HISTORYAND ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE DOG II. THE VARIETIES OF THE DOG. FIRST DIVISION f III. THE VARIETIES OF THE DOG, SECOND DIVISION . . 43 IV. THE VARIETIES OF THE DOG. THIRD DIVISION . . 98 V. THE GOOD QUALITIES OF THE DOG THE SENSE OF SMELL INTELLIGENCE MORAL QUALITIES DOG- CARTS CROPPING TAILING BREAKING-IN DOG- . PAGE PITS DOG-STEALING 105 VI. DESCRIPTION OF THE SKELETON. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM FITS TURNSIDE EPILEPSY CHOREA RHEUMATISM AND PALSY . . . .116 VII. RABIES 128 VIII. THE EYE AND ITS DISEASES 155 IX. THE EAR AND ITS DISEASES 160 X. ANATOMY OF THE NOSE AND MOUTH AND DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE FACE. THE SENSE OF SMELL THE TONGUE THE LIPS THETEETH THE LARYNX BRONCHOCELE PHLEG- MONOUS TUMOUR 169 XI. ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST THE DIA- PHRAGM THE PERICARDIUM THE HEART PLEU- RISY PNEUMONIA SPASMODIC COUGH ... 185 RJ363108 1 13 CHAPTER CONTENTS. XII. ANATOMY OF THE GULLET, STOMACH, AND INTESTINES TETANUS ENTERITIS PERITONITIS COLIC CAL- CULUS IN THE INTESTINES INTUSSUSCEPTION DIARRHOEA DYSENTERY COSTIVENESS DROPSY THELIVER JAUNDICE THESPLEENANDPANCREAS INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEY CALCULUS IN- OF THE FLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER RUPTURE BLADDER WORMS FISTULA IN THE ANUS . XIII. BLEEDING TORSION CASTRATION PARTURITION AND SOME DISEASES CONNECTED WITH THE ORGANS OF GENERATION . . . . . . PAOK .194 v, . ., . . 222 XIV. THE DISTEMPER fc 71 .. . . 231 XV. SMALL-POX MANGE WARTS CANCER FUNGUS HEMA- TODES SORE FEET .-j .243 XVI.FRACTURES 250 XVII. MEDICINES USED IN THE TREATMENT OFTHE DISEASES OF THE DOG, 255 APPENDIX. NEW LAWS OF COURSING 260 THE DOG. CHAPTER I. THE EARLY HISTORY AND ZOOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE DOG. THE DOG, next to the human being-, ranks highest in the scale of intelligence, and was evidently designed to be the companion and the friend of man. We exact the services of other animals, and, the task being performed, we dismiss them to their accustomed food and rest but several of the varieties of the dog follow us to our home they are connected with many of our pleasures and wants, and guard our sleeping hours. The first animal of the domestication of which we have any account was the sheep. Abel was a keeper of sheep. a It is difficult to believe that any long time would pass before the dog who now in every country of the world is the companion of the shepherd, and the director or guardian of the sheep would be enlisted in the service of man...