DISEASES OF DOGS: DISTEMPER. 317 



(RECIPE, No. 13.) 



Take — Thin warm gruel, eight ounces ; 



Tincture of opium, two to three drachms: 

 Mix, and repeat it if necessary. 



When the vomiting and purging have in a great 

 measure ceased, the purging ball (No. 11, p. 315) 

 should be given, and it may be repeated in two 

 or three days. 



Fomentations, or immersing the dog in a warm 

 bath, will be proper if the disease be severe and 

 obstinate. 



CHAP. VII. 



DISTEMPER. 



Some years this is a very destructive disease, 

 particularly to young and delicate whelps ; as grey- 

 hounds, pointers, terriers, &c. : those that have 

 come to their full growth, and are strong and well 

 fed, are much more likely to recover. The disease 

 would by no means prove so destructive to dogs 

 as it does, were it more judiciously treated by 

 sportsmen, but they are too apt to rely implicitly 

 on some recipe which they mostly possess, and 

 which they commonly extol as a specific ; and as 

 such, administer it indiscriminately in every case 



