f,6 DISEASES 



Glycerine • • • . 4 drams 



Add water (distilled) to make 8 ounces 



Of the first four articles use only Lloyd Bros.' preparations — a Cincinnati 

 wholesale drug firm. If your druggist doesn't have them in stock, he can 

 get them by ordering from Lloyd Bros.', or I can get this prescription 

 filled and send you. The dose would be at first — until you see a change 

 for the better — a teaspoonful every hour until three or four doses are given, 

 then every two hours. Of course, if the patient should be a very young 

 puppy, the dose should be smaller, but such cases of dysentery are seldom 

 found in puppies, except when a very great looseness of the bowels appears, 

 generally due to worms; such cases very likely will be cured by proper 

 worm treatment, which find under heading of Worms. In above pre- 

 scription the ecefolta is most excellent for the blood, blood-poisoning and 

 as a disinfectant to kill germs, and to reduce fever, which every dog has 

 in a case of dysentery. Dog also has a cold which the aconite will relieve. 

 The baptisia is for fever and the blood, the ipecac for the stomach and 

 mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels. I will add here that this 

 remedy was intended by the regular doctor, who prescribed it for this dog 

 — for humans, but was tried, and successfully, on the dog in this case. 

 Worms may have been the original cause of this case of dysentery. Dry 

 browned toast soaked in meat broths or gravy is very good food to use in 

 such cases of dysentery. 



Dent has written especially for this book the following on Dysentery: 



"This disease is frequently neglected with the false hope that it will 

 cure itself. It is a serious affection and demands prompt care and treat- 

 ment. Causes are inflammation of the mucous membrane of the lower 

 bowels or large intestines, accompanied by ulceration, and in many cases 

 bleeding. The action of poisons, eating of putrid food, rapid' changes from 

 heat to cold and. vice versa, also the after-effects of inflammation of the 

 small intestines. 



"Symptoms. — At first there is a loss of appetite, restlessness, painful 

 condition of the bowels, as attested by pressure on the belly. The nose is 

 hot and dry, the animal is feverish, and at first constipated. Afterwards 

 the bowels, after more or less straining, begin to move, the passages are 

 putrid and more disagreeable, become more frequent and tinged with blood 

 as a result of injury to the bowels, or with pus as a result of ulceration. 



"Treatment. — Give a dose to a 40-lb. dog, %oz. each of olive oil and 

 castor oil, to which can be added from 10 to 20 drops of laudanum; small- 

 er and larger dogs a proportonate dose. Give injections of boiled starch 

 water, with 20 to 40 drops of laudanum. If the disease has become chronic 

 it may be necessary to try several different prescriptions before arriving 

 at a cure. Here is one: 



Sub-nitrate of bismuth 2 drams 



Ipecacuana powdered 30 grains 



Pepsin 1 d r am 



Siastrase , 4 grains 



Dose. — Divide into 12 powders and give one three times a day. 



