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Carbonate of aninioniacum 3 drams 



Fluid extract of belladonna 2 drams 



Gum camphor 5 drams 



Syrup of squills '. 5 drams 



Simple syrup 4 ounces 



Fluid extract of licorice 4 ounces 



Dose for a medium-sized dog, a teaspoonful every four hours. This 

 is a very good cough syrup. Large dogs could have 1 y 2 teaspoonsf ul. 



A cough remedy advertised for humans, called "Pinex," I tried on dogs, 

 and found it to be very good for many coughs. You can get a fifty cent 

 bottle of Pinex of your druggist, and from this, prepare at home, a pint 

 of cough syrup that would cost a couple dollars, by mixing the contents 

 of the bottle in a syrup you can easily make from less than a pound of 

 granulated sugar. The dose would be from half to a teaspoonful, every 

 two to four hours. Dogs larger than fifty pounds, could stand a little 

 larger dose. I have used this for the cough a dog has in distemper, and 

 it did the dog's cough good, not conflicting with the other medicines 

 being used. 



"Very lately the following prescription was prescribed for me by a 

 regular doctor for a chronic, bronchial, dry cough, that one of my old 

 dogs has every fall and winter, which nothing I had ever used would stop — 

 this one did it — and I consider it a most valuable one. 



Syrup Oocillaiia, Compound (Parke Davis & Co.). — Dose would be a 

 teaspoonful for dogs up to 50 pounds, and a little more for very large 

 breeds, every two or three hours. A dose of any cough syrup should al- 

 ways be given the last thing at night. 



Here is an "old fashioned cough syrup" for a "sore throat cough." 

 Boil down some onions and brown sugar, and give teaspoonful every twd 

 or three hours. 



Another very sensible article on coughs, (which I found some place), 

 commends itself: 



"There are two kinds of coughs that a dog suffers from; one comes 

 from the throat and the other from the stomach, and each requires dif- 

 ferent treatment. There is about as much use in trying to cure a stomach 

 cough with a bronchial remedy as there would be for you to take a laxa- 

 tive for chilblains, and yet it is often done. The bronchial cold may be 

 treated in the following manner: Put in a warm room and give either cod 

 liver oil, syrup of white pine or some similar preparation. A good formula 

 for coughs in dogs is syrup of squills, syrup of wild cherry, of each two 

 parts; glycerine, one part. If the cough becomes so bad that there is a 

 great deal of difficulty in breathing, an ordinary water kettle placed over 

 a gas stove or some other hot fire, so that the escape of steam will be 

 rapid, will be found to be a relief. Of course, a regular bronchitis kettle 

 or one of the patent lamps that can be had for a small sum at any drug 

 store, can also be used. In the stomachie cough it is always wise to give 

 a purgative and to treat for worms, as internal parasites are in nine 



