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Symptoms. — There is a continual jerking of the muscles 

 around the affected part when the dog- is resting. 



Treatment. — There cannot be much done for it after the 

 disease has once set in, but by giving from one-quarter to one halt 

 a dram of bromide of potassium twice a day on his tongue with a 

 spoon or in a little new milk, according to the size of the dog, as 

 soon as the disease is noticed, it will nearly always effect a cure. 



DOGS POISONED WITH RAT POISON, STRYCHNINE OR ARSENIC. 



Symptoms. — All at once the dog seems in great pain ; takes 

 fits; slobbers at the mouth; the eyes are bulged out and blood- 

 shot, and he keeps trembling all over. If the dog shows the above 

 symptoms, and you have had poison around the place, or he has 

 been anywhere that he could possibly get it, you may conclude 

 he has been poisoned. 



Treatment. — The treatment must be quick. Give the dog 

 an emetic to make him vomit ; this is the only way you can save 

 his life. The idea is to get him to throw up the poison out of his 

 stomach before it gets absorbed into the blood. Give him one 

 tablespoonful of salt dissolved in a half teacupful of luke warm 

 water as a drench, or one teaspoonful of mustard dissolved in a 

 half teacupful of luke warm water as a drench; either of the 

 above will cause vomiting. But the best of all, if you have it, to 

 make him vomit, is to give him from half a teaspoonful to a 

 teaspoonful of sulphate of zinc dissolved in a half teacupful of 

 luke warm water and give it as a drench. If you can get him to 

 vomit soon enough it will generally save his life. 



FRACTURES OR BROKEN BONES IN DOGS. 



Causes. — Fractures of bones in the dog may occur in various^ 

 ways, such as a kick or being struck with anything. 



Symptoms. — The symptoms vary according to the part 

 affected. It it is a fracture of the neck bones the dog dies instant- 

 ly ; if in the back it causes paralysis of his hind quarters; if it is in 

 the hip or hind leg it is easily told, for the dog cannot use the leg 

 and hops along on the other three while the broken one will be 

 dangling; if it is a fracture in the front leg, he acts similar to when 

 the fracture is in the hind leg. To make sure it is a fracture, 

 catch the dog and move the afTected parts and you can hear the 

 ends of the broken bone grinding on each other. 



Treatment. — if the fracture is in the back, there can be noth- 

 ing done but to destroy the dog, to put him out of pain. If it i& 



