440 ATONIC DISEASES. 



freshly powdered areca nut is about two grains to every pound of 

 the dog's weight. Thus a dog of 30 lbs. will take one drachm, or 

 half an average nut. The powder should be merely the nut roughl}^ 

 grated with a coarse " grater ; " and it should be quickly mixed 

 with some good broth, thickened with oatmeal, and given before 

 the bitter taste is extracted by soaking, after which the dog will 

 not voluntarily take it. 



Stinking hellebore is very innocent, and even useful in other 

 ways. The dose for a 30 lbs. dog is five or six grains mixed up 

 with eight or ten of jalap, and formed into a bolus, to be given 

 every five or six days. 



Indian pink is a very powerful vermifuge ; but it also occasionally 

 acts very prejudicially on the dog ; and it must never be given 

 without knowing the risk which is incurred. I have myself used 

 it in numberless instances without injury; but its employment has 

 so frequently been followed by fatal results in other hands that I 

 cannot do otherwise than caution my readers against it. How, or 

 why, this has been, I have never been able to ascertain ; but, that 

 it is so, I have no doubt whatever. If it is determined to use it, 

 half an ounce of the drug, as purchased, should be infused in half 

 a pint of boiling water ; and of this infusion, after straining it, from 

 a table-spoonful to two table-spoonfuls should be given to the dog, 

 according to size, followed by a dose of oil. 



Calomel is a powerful expellant, but it also is attended with 

 danger. The dose is from three to five grains, mixed with jalap. 

 (See 12, page 346.) 



Wormwood may be given with advantage to young jDuppies, being 



