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ounces of cow's milk 2 y 2 ounces of cream, 2 y 2 ounces of Plasmon, and 8 

 ounces of water. This will be better and fresher than giving condensed milk 

 as you know what you are using. 



Boracic Solution, to Make. — Dissolve a teaspoonful of powdered boracic 

 acid in half a pint of tepid water. 



Sore Rectum — Apply sparingly twice a day some compound hemlock 

 and tannic acid ointment to the part. "Unguentine" salve will also heal 

 up quickly. 



How Often to Use a Stud Dog. — Owners of stud dogs have often been 

 more or less perplexed as to the quantity of bitches it is advisable to allow 

 a dog to serve within a given period. To satisfy any doubt on that point, 

 and for the guidance of owners, one bitch per week the year round, which 

 would give two bitches per week during the breeding season, is ample for 

 any dog. 



A dog in good health will take no harm with a harem of the dimen- 

 sions indicated, but more visitors he has beyond that number and greater 

 will be the strain upon his system. Too much stud work impairs the dog's 

 procreative faculties, and has not only a tendency to produce weakness and 

 decripitude in the dog's hindquarters, but a race of weakly offspring is like- 

 ly to result. 



To Improve the Coat. — Rub all over dog, about once or twice a week, 

 a mixture made with methylated spirits, one part; almond oil, seven parts. 



Giving Raw Eggs. — Raw eggs can be easily fed, as it is only necessary 

 to break off the end of the shell, open the dog's mouth with the fingers of 

 the left hand, and, withdrawing the tongue somewhat with one or two fingers 

 of the right hand allow the contents of the egg to run down his throat. 

 If he refuses to swallow, relaxing the tongue will usually have the desired 

 effect. 



Breaking Dog of Sucking Eggs. — Make a small hole and put in enough 

 syrup of ipecac to vomit a dog, then conceal the opening and put the egg 

 where the dog will find it. After that the very sight of an egg will make 

 him sick at the stomach. 



Lack of Milk. — To induce flow of milk, feed raw meat mixed with well 

 cooked oatmeal — the real oatmeal, not the breakfast foods, but it must 

 be well boiled. Give some milk between times. 



Paralysis Before in Heat. — Female Pom., 7 months, about 8 lbs., com- 

 pletely lost the use of her hind legs, and her front legs seem weak, muscles 

 of neck appear to be affected, as she has difficulty in picking up food, and 

 has to be fed by hand; cannot move about at all, and frequently has twitch- 

 ings in her legs. 



Answer. — It is paralysis which occasionally occurs in bitches before 

 coming in heat for the first time. Give three times a day five grains of 

 the homeopathic trituration of nux vomica. Keep the bowels well opened, 

 and see that the bladder operates regularly. Do not use liniment. 



Capsules, Giving Medicine in. — Taken all round, there is no better 

 method of giving medicine to dogs than in the form of flexible gelatine cap- 

 sules. And it is a fact that a dog can swallow a capsule much more readily 

 than a pill, so that even a large capsule will often slip down the more 

 readily than quite a little pill or bolus. Capsules have many advantages; 

 they are much cleaner, of course, than powders and liquids to begin with. 

 Then they can be made to contain almost anything; and there are very few 

 drugs that cannot now be concentrated, so that the chemist is able to pro- 

 duce quite a tiny capsule containing quite a large dose of physic. A few 

 things, like castor oil and olive oil, cannot be concentrated, of course; but 

 all the more potent vegetable products and extracts like cascara sagrada, 

 can be condensed into this small, convenient form. Then there is the fur- 

 ther advantage of disintegration. A gelatin capsule will dissolve in the 

 stomach far more quickly than a pill will dissolve; so you get quicker ac- 

 tion and speedier result. In point of fact, the pearl coating so common 

 nowadays on pills is frequently a great disadvantage. It is made of French 

 chalk, and often forms almost a cement, the effect of which is to prevent 

 the contents from disintegrating. ^ 



