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continue to treat it in a purely symptomatic manner. Antipyrine, which 

 was advocated as an absolute specific, does not in the least deserve this 

 recommendation. The diet must be easily digested food, but at the same 

 time as nutritious as possible. Milk, bouillon, soup, and scraped raw 

 meat (which is generally taken with a relish) have much to commend 

 them. In grave cases where there is entire loss of appetite, we must use 

 concentrated food, such as peptonized meat, extract of beef, and clear 

 broth. This may be given with some mild alcoholic stimulant, wine, etc. 

 There are some forms of extract of beef which are not to be recommended, 

 on account of their slight nutritive value and as they also contain a 

 large proportion of sodium salts. When the temperature rises above 

 40° we must try to reduce it by means of frictions of alcohol and mild 

 antiseptics. 



The "antipyretic'' treatment can only be used in rare instances in 

 the dog. The chief medicinal agents are quinine, salicylate of sodium, 

 antifebrine, and antipyrine. The older remedies (digitalis, veratrum, etc.) 

 have been abandoned for some time on account of their direct action on 

 the heart. This is also the case with kairin, thallin, and phenacetin. 

 The writer, as a rule, does not advise the use of Cj[uinine on account of 

 its action upon the heart. 



It must be said, however, that in this disease good nursing, attention 

 to dietetics, fresh air and cleanliness are the greatest factors in producing 

 good results. The animal must be kept in a dry, clean, warm (not hot) 

 well lighted and ventilated kennel, but avoid the slightest suspicion of a 

 draught or dampness, and to prevent the spread of the disease through 

 contagion, disinfect the place when the animal has recovered, as well as 

 the surroundings used by the animal from time to time. The food should 

 be substantial and easily digested, such as milk, sago, egg and milk, 

 mutton broth and eggs, thick soups and small quantities of raw meat 

 must be given at short intervals. 



When the animal refuses to eat, he must be given food in concentrated 

 form, such as thick meat broth, with a yolk of egg in it, extract of meat, 

 extract of malt, hamatogenc, hsemo-albumen, or use some of the various 

 extracts of beef. 



To maintain the strength, or when the acute symptoms have sub- 

 sided but the animal is weak, the digestion poor, or the mouth sore and 

 solid particles of food cannot be eaten, we use concentrated food, such as 

 some of the various meat extracts and peptonized products, commercial 

 meat juice and liquified peptone; nutritive preparations containing 

 albumen, such as samatose, plasmon, etc. If the stomach cannot retain 

 food but is vomited up immediately after it is given, nutrition can be 

 administered by means of clysters. This can be meat broth, yolks of 

 egg, and thick starch water, to make it of enough consistency to be 



