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little arts we ufe to perfuade fick children to take 

 nourifliment; for they are, under thefe circumftances, 

 to the full as fickle, and as fanciful. A fteak very 

 nicely dreffed will entice them frequently; and pork, 

 in many cafes, when no other meat will. Broiled 

 or roaft meat is always taken in preference to boiled, 

 and is more nutritive. Game bones will often be 

 taken even by fporting dogs, when every thing befide 

 h refufed. But in all cafes of ficknefs, when a dog 

 obftinately refufes to eat, he muft be forced ; and 

 the befl food for this purpofe is thick oatmeal gruel, 

 poured down by means of a butter-boat. In cafes 

 requiring cordials, ale may be mixed with the gruel, 

 or even wine in fome inftances, as in putrid difeafes. 



Cleanlinefs is not only eflential to the health, but 

 to the comfort of dogs, and in ficknefs is refrefliing 

 to them. 



Not only are dogs improperly treated in ficknefs, . 

 but the means of preferving them in health are not 

 fufficiently attended to. The want of exercife is a 

 great caufe of difeafe among dogs : by this means 

 they become mangy, get obftinate coughs, canker 

 in the ears, and cancerous fwellings, or they become 

 abfolutely choaked with fat. The not permitting 

 the females to breed is in them a fruitful fource of 

 difeafe : — cancers along the line of the teats originate 

 from this ; obefity, foul coats, and cankers in the 

 ear, likewife are brought on by this neglecft. Vo- 



