DISEASES AND REMEDIES 97 



and if not checked starched enemas must be 

 resorted to. They should have no water un- 

 less rice has been boiled in it and they should 

 be fed boiled milk with browned flour stirred 

 in it. Ten-grain doses of bismuth daily will 

 also assist in correcting bowel derangements. 

 The most important thing is to keep up the 

 strength and tempt their appetite with a vari- 

 ety of food, including milk and eggs. When 

 a hound quits eating, the case is serious indeed, 

 and forced feed should be resorted to, eggs 

 and milk with a little whisky or brandy added 

 should be given; several tablespoonfuls five or 

 six times a day, or a teaspoonful of syrup hypo- 

 phosphites several times a day is a most excel- 

 lent tonic. 



At the end of the first week they should be 

 treated for the abscess that frequently forms 

 at end of spine or root of tail. Grasp tail with 

 left hand and pull it back, with finger and 

 thumb of right hand squeeze anus hard; this 

 will burst the abscess. Repeat in five days. 

 Paralysis, so common in this disease, is caused 

 by this abscess. 



CHOREA 

 Chorea is one of the distressing after-effects 



