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stances it will last for weeks ; in the event of which I would 

 recommend strict attention to the state of the bowels, and 

 tliat the nose be frequently fomented with pieces of flannel 

 dipped in hot milk and water. 



Colonel Hawker recommends, in the case of a discharge 

 from the nose, the use of a lotion, made by mixing half an 

 ounce of sugar of lead, and the same quantity of alum, with 

 a pint of water, and that the nose should be syringed with 

 it. However effectual such applications may be in stopping 

 the discharge, yet I cannot too strongly condemn the use of 

 them, as having a tendency to bring on other diseases in the 

 mucous membrane of the nose, and thereby affect, if not 

 totally destroy, the olfactory nerves. But the truth is, the 

 dischage from the nose is by no means an unfavourable 

 symptom : the main risk the dog runs in this disease fs from 

 internal inflammation, and not from any affection of the 

 organ ; and it is a very generally received opinion in me- 

 dical practice, that it is not safe to check discharges sud- 

 denly. 



When the irritability of the stomach continues, and it 

 refuses to retain the medicine, the latter should be mixed up 

 with a small piece of butter, and from thirty to fifty drops 

 of laudanum added, according to the age, size, and strength 

 of the dog. Should this not remain in the stomach, an 

 hour and a half afterwards the same quantity of laudanum 

 should be given in a little broth. The powder must also be 

 administered, in twenty minutes or half an hour, made into 

 a kind of paste with treacle and flour, or lintseed-meal, 

 which will certainly have the efi'ect of allaying the vomiting. 

 But if the bowels are obstructed, which generally follows the 

 use of much laudanum, and the reaching still continues, in 

 this case some active purgative should be had recourse to, 

 such as twenty grains of jalap, or fifteen grains of calomel, 



