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living, fresh air, massage, and warm baths. As 

 for results he would hazard no prediction. But he 

 said that the year before he had two cases in his 

 kennels. In one, which seemed comparatively 

 slight, the victim became a hopeless cripple, and 

 was destroyed ; in the more serious case the 

 patient recovered, to take first honours on a show 

 bench at the Crystal Palace. 



Consumption, as I said, is far from uncommon ; 

 it is likely to make progress before it is suspected, 

 and is really incurable. It begins with a cough, 

 but there are no signs of fever ; the victim gradu- 

 ally wastes away, and in time there is habitual 

 diarrhoea, with internal bleeding from the rupture 

 of blood-vessels. Cod-liver oil may be tried, but it 

 only alleviates the symptoms and defers the end. 

 When the disease has got firm hold, it is kindness 

 to put an end to the sufferer. Inflammation of the 

 lungs, though not necessarily so deadly, is very 

 dangerous. The signs are fever, with dry nose and 

 inflamed eyes ; the dog is labouring hard for breath. 

 The best thing to do is immediately to take advice. 

 If that cannot be done, the treatment recommended 

 is a warm bed in a well-ventilated room, light and 

 nourishing diet, fomentations of hot turpentine, 

 with quinine and cod-liver oil when the dog is in 

 w'ay of recovery. The treatment to be begun with 

 a dose of three parts castor-oil, two parts syrup of 

 buckthorn, and a sixth, syrup of poppies. 



Worms are, unfortunately, very common ; they 

 attack dogs universally, whether well or ill cared for, 



