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aether, six drachms; water, four ounces. Give a teaspoonfiil 

 eveiw three hours. The animal should be kept warm by clothing' 

 the body. Plenty of good, fresh water, or milk and water, 

 should be given. The nose and eyes should be repeatedly 

 sponged, and the food restricted to a milk and water diet^ or the 

 various liquid foods recommended in this work may be used. 

 This simi^le treatment, if thoroughly carried out, will cure most 

 cases. Prof. AVilliams recommends the use of six-grain doses of 

 the hyposulphite of soda, with one drachm of sweet spirits of 

 nitre. When there is excessive purging, it should be arrested by 

 a good dose of epsom salts, to carry away anything that may act 

 as an irritant; after it has acted, a scruple of powdered chalk, ten 

 grains of catechu, and five of ginger, with a quarter of a grain of 

 opium, made into a ball with palm oil, may be given to a middle- 

 sized dog»twice or thrice every day. If worms are present, a 

 scruple to one drachm of areca nut should be given. If from 

 teething, the gums are to be lanced. If vomiting is excited, it 

 should be allayed by giving from two to four drops Scheel's 

 strength of hydrocyanic acid. If jaundice is present, the bowels 

 should bo opened with epsom salts, and then give half-grain 

 doses of calomel twice a day. When fits are present, and the 

 animal is strong, a grain of calomel and a quarter of a grain of 

 opium should be given. The pulmonary complications are best 

 relieved by the application of hot flannels to the sides. If chorea 

 be a complication, and summer is approaching, the dog may 

 recover. Nitrate of silver, in doses of one-eighth of a grain, 

 made into pills with linseed meal, and increased to a quarter of a 

 grain, should be given morning and night. Nourishment must 

 be forced upon the animal if it will not take it spontaneously. 

 The milk food recommended in this work should be given. As 

 soon, however, as spasms spread over him, accompanied by a 

 singular half fetid smell, the poor creature moaning and crying, 

 humanity demands that we put an end to that which we cannot 

 cure. 



