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likely to be effective ; and the following, if adminis- 

 tered in proper time, I seldom knew it to fail ; 



Calomel, - - - - 10 grains. 

 Emetic Tartar, - - - 20 grains. 



* Let these be made into a large bolus, and divided 

 into twelve equal portions, one to be given every 

 other morning fasting. 



' The diet should be warm strong broth ; and a 

 single course of this medicine, in the earliest stage 

 of the complaint, will effectually cure it ; but should 

 it happen that the disorder has been making, for 

 any time, a secret progress, we must then pursue a 

 more systematic method. 



' The two most dangerous symptoms are, at the 

 beginning, excessive looseness, and afterwards fits. 

 So long as the first continues, no medicine will have 

 any effect, and a dog in this state can scarcely ever 

 be persuaded to feed ; to remove this half an ounce 

 of powdered gum-arabic, and the same quantity of 

 prepared chalk, must be mixed together, and divided 

 into twelve small balls ; one, two, or three to be 

 given during the day, until the purging is stopped : 

 I would then decline any immediate medical process 

 for a couple of days, during which time isinglass, 

 boiled in milk, and given in small quantities every 

 four hours, will assuredly relieve the dog from the 

 effects of relaxation ; the calomel and emetic tartar 

 may be again administered, and, under such treat- 

 ment, I have seldom known a dog but which even- 

 tually recovered, 



'Fits are, of all symptoms, the most to be dreaded; 

 and their violence is frequently of that nature as to 

 prove immediately fatal ; at least a dog seldom sur- 

 vives after a third. They generally appear when he 

 has made considerable progress towards amendment, 

 and you are therefore, taken more by surprise and 

 unprepared : a perseverance in the medicine, after a 

 supposed recovery has taken place, is the most likely 



