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together, but if a very old dog there is not much ch. nee of 

 the bones knitting together, although they might. If the 

 fracture is down on the leg set the broken bone to its place 

 and make a long, starch bandage (which is a bandage soaked 

 in starch and then wrung out as dry as possible . Roll the 

 bandage around the fractured leg, letting it go two or three 

 inches above and below the fracture, wrap it moderately 

 tight and hold the leg and bandage straight until it hardens. 

 Keep the dog quiet and leave the bandage on for three or 

 four weeks until the bones are healed and he can use his leg 

 all right. 



4. Scalds and Burns. 



Unless these are very severe it may be well merely to 

 keep the patient quiet, clean, warm and comfortable. If pre- 

 vented from licking the parts applications of the white lotion 

 is beneficial and will soon cause them to heal. 



Should proud flesh make its appearance in the wound, 

 burn it out with a stick of caustic potash. 



5. Poisoning — Rat Poison, Strychnine or Arsenic. 



Causes. — The dog gets at these poisons often through 

 accident. It frequently happens that they are purposely 

 placed in his way by contemptible persons, who take this 

 sneaky method of avenging themselves against the owner of 

 the harmless brute. 



Symptoms. — Severe pains appear very quickly after the 

 poison is eaten. He takes fits, slobbers at the mouth, the 

 eyes bulge out and are bloodshot, and he keeps trembling 

 all over. If the dog shows the above symptoms, and you 

 have had poison around the place, or he has been anywhere 

 that he could possibly get it, you may conclude that he has 

 been poisoned. 



Treatment. — The treatment must be quick. Give the dog 

 an emetic to make him vomit. This is the only way you can 

 save his life. The idea is to get him to throw up the poison 

 from the stomach before it gets absorbed into the blood. 

 Give him one dessertspoonful of salt dissolved in a half tea- 

 cupful of lukewarm water as a drench, or one teaspoonful 

 of mustard dissolved in a half teacupful of lukewarm water 

 as a drench. Either wil-1 cause vomiting. But the best of 

 all, if you have it, to make him vomit, is to give from half a 

 teaspoonful to a teaspoonful of sulphate of zinc dissolved in 



