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straining, and is very difficult to manage; it often occurs in protracted 

 cases of distemper, and carries off the patient. 



In treating dysentery the "anodyne mixture" given in diarrhea treat- 

 ment should be tried in the first instance alone, and if ineffectual, one of 

 the following pills for a dog of 60-lb. to SO-lb., every four hours may be 

 tried with good results. For smaller dogs half a pill. 



Pills for Dysentery. 



Take of tannic acid 2 scruples and pure sulphate of copper 1 dram, 

 powdered opium 20 grains, mixed, and divide into twenty pills; or if a 

 liquid medicine should be preferred, the following will answer: Take of 

 pure sulphate of copper 48 grains, dissolve in 2 ounces of cinnamon wa- 

 ter; add V2 ounce of tincture of catechu, y 2 ounce of laudanum, 6 drams of 

 aromatic spirits of ammonia, and make up to 12 ounces with cinnamon 

 water. Dose for an 80-lb. dog two tablespoonfuls every four hours; smaller 

 dogs in proportion. Clysters of starch, with one dram of laudanum in each, 

 are often very beneficial, and one may be thrown up every four or five 

 hours. 



The patient should have perfect rest, all evacuations should be in- 

 stantly removed, and the place where the patient is (which should be warm 

 but airy) kept sweet with disinfectants. The food should consist of pearl 

 barley, rice, arrowroot or wheaten flour, boiled in milk, varied with strong 

 beef tea slightly thickened with stale bread or plain biscuit. 



I have cured dogs of dysentery of long standing, obstinate cases, with 

 the following prescription, which was found to be very valuable in the 

 treatment of such cases in the human race — of soldiers who contracted this 

 disease in the war of '61. A friend of mine, a noted doctor in human prac- 

 tice, gave it to me and I "tried it on a dog," succeeding in effecting a per- 

 manent cure, since which time I have used it in several such cases with 

 success. Take sima ruba bark, two ounces, and put it in a quart of water, 

 boil this down to a pint, then strain and boil this down to half a pint. 

 (Be careful to not burn.) The dose for a dog the size of a pointer would 

 be a teaspoonful three times a. day. Large dogs like a St. Bernard, two 

 teaspoonfuls at a dose, while very small toy dogs like a toy terrier, should 

 have half a teaspoonful at a time. 



The following prescription was furnished me by Mr. J. A. Rogers, of 

 Ironton, Ohio, after trying it on his pointer that had suffered with chronic 

 dysentery for over a month till the dog was a skeleton and could hardly 

 stand up. This dog had been treated for worms, at first supposed to be 

 the cause of the trouble, and several well-known remedies tried, but no 

 worms and no stoppage of the dysentery. As a last resort he tried this 

 prescription, and cured the dog. From a full history of this extreme case, 

 furnished me by several letters during its duration, I have concluded that 

 this is a very valuable remedy and likely to cure when everything else fails: 



Specific aconite 10 drops 



Specific baptisia 10 drops 



Specific ipecac 15 drops 



Specific ecefolta " 1 dram- 



