Diseases of Dogs. 155 



DISEASES OF DOGS.. 



In a work recently published, entitled " Instructions to young 

 SpurtsmeUj" by P. Hawker, Esq. we find the following recipes 

 for treating the diseases and accidents to which these useful ani- 

 mals are subject. The author's long and extensive experience 

 tnables him to speak with confidence on such topics, and we 

 have no doubt we shall confer a benefit on .society at large, by 

 making public the means which he prescribes. 



" Distemper. — To enumerate the various recipes for this 

 sometimes incurable disease would require a volume; but, of all 

 that I have yet tried, none has answered better than the one I 

 shall here give; and, as the remedy is so innocent, it may be 

 safely administered where there exists ei'en a vloubt as to a dog 

 having the distemper. 



" Recipe*. 

 " Opium . . . . . . , . . . 3 grains. 



Emetic tartar (an invaluable medicine) . . 5 grains. 

 To be given at night. 



" Repeat the dose, every third night, till the dog is recovered; 

 taking care to keep him in a warm place, and always fed with a 

 warm liquid diet, such as broth, gruel, &c. 



*' If the nostrils should discharge, liave them washed, or sy- 

 ringed, twice a day, with a lotion of alum, or sugar of lead; 

 putting about half an ounce of either to a pint of water. 



** The following is a recipe, which nr bribe could tempt the 

 vender to part with ; but, by means of some ve; v clever chemists, 

 I have ascertained it to be simply as follows ; after some trouble 

 in discovering the proportions, and discarditig the ingredients 

 by means of which it was disguised in a pill. 



''Recipe. — For a half-grown Pointer. 

 " Jalap powder 25 grains. Calomel 5 grains. 

 Made into a pill vvith a little gum water. 

 " For a fiill-grou'ii Pointer. 

 " Jalap powder 30 grains. Calomel 8 grains. 

 Mixed as above. 

 " One of these doses, mixed with butter, or in a small piece 

 of meat, should be given to the dog every morning, on an empty 

 omach. The food should be li;»ht, and easy to digest; and 

 le lotion, if rer|uired for the nostrils, should lie observed here, 

 . before mentioned. 



" Notwiilistandirg the trouble we had to discover this simple 

 recipe, I should prefer the oncfir^t given., because there is less 

 -hancc of a dog taking cold with that, than any kind of mer - 

 /^rtV// preparation." 



'I he following prescriptions are each about a dose for a full-i;rt)wft 

 pointer. They must, of course, be iiicrciised or dirninislied in propoitinu 

 ■o iho il/e aud streii(jili of the dog." 



