COMMONER AILMENTS OF THE DOG IN CHINA AND SOME SIMPLE RExMEDIES 69 



Suggested Remedies.— Secure the dog as soon as you can, for on recovery he will to a 

 certainty bolt, and put him under the cold water tap. A teaspoonful of salt put down 

 over the tongue often makes the dog immediately vomit and recover. 



Should the dog faint or coma follow the attack rub the gums with brandy, but 

 ivith your gloves on. Some veterinarians recommend the bromide of potassium treatment, 

 but it is very difficult to administer any medicine to an epileptic animal, 



LIVER COMPLAINTS. 



As with human beings so with our dogs, the liver unhappily is much too frequently 

 the seat of disease, and so insidious are attacks of inflammation of that organ that they are 

 often only discovered after jaundice has but too surely shown its unmistakable presence. 

 Dogs may, of course, suffer from inflammation of the liver without the accompaniment of 

 jaundice, but in the large majority of cases the fateful "yellows " will be found to be present. 

 Causes. — Overwork, chill from not being properly dried after shooting, damp bedding, an 



undrained yard. 

 Symptoms. — General and unusual listlessness, loss of appetite, and not only an indisposition 

 to move but a positive craving for some dark hiding place. The eyes appear to be 

 drawn back into the head and look about half their usual size. The tongue is furred, 

 the breath offensive, and there is constant retching. The water is hot and of a high 

 colour and the faeces are mingled with mucous. The lips, tongue, ears and footpads 

 have a cold, clammy feeling, and the whole skin is pervaded with the icteric tint; lips, 

 eyes and inside the thighs all turning yellow. Emaciation is rapid. 

 Suggested Remedies. — Mercury, in some form or other is generally suggested as a specific 

 in the treatment of jaundice, and blue-pill comes largely into request, but podophyllin 

 seems to answer the purpose as well as anything, and the following compound made up 

 into 24 pills — the dose for a 20 lb. animal being one pill — will be found very useful : — 

 6 Grains podophyllin 

 30 „ compound extract of colocynth 

 48 „ powdered rhubarb 

 30 „ extract of henbane. 

 If this does not move the bowels in a reasonable time give a good dose of black 

 draught (salts and senna). It is all important that the bowels should be moved at the 

 outset, and what little food is given should be of a light, nourishing, sloppy nature. The 

 rest must be left to nature and the most quiet, careful nursing; loud talking and any but 

 the gentlest handling are inimical to recovery. Jaundice is about the very worst ill that 

 canine flesh is heir to, and experience unfortunately goes to prove that it is very seldom 

 curable when it has once got a firm hold of its patient. But the owner is strongly advised 

 even if he but suspect anything the matter with either liver or lungs to consult without 

 delay a veterinary surgeon. 



MANGE. 



Few names are more frequently misapplied than this which is made use of to cover 

 every skin disease to which the sporting dog is liable. 



