Biliousness] ^O [Biliousness 



may be used to dust (sparingly) over wound 

 instead of boracic. 



Baths: A tepid bath should register about 

 90 deg. F., a warm bath 100 deg. F. A 

 soothing bath for an irritable and red skin 

 can be made by adding to three gallons of tepid 

 water, one ounce of borax, eight tablespoonfuls 

 of fine oatmeal, in which the dog should be 

 immersed for ten or fifteen minutes, and re- 

 peated two or three times a week. When 

 the dog is dirty he may be cleaned whilst in the 

 bath by rubbing the yolks of three or four eggs 

 into the skin and coat, and then rinsing off 

 with the oatmeal water. 



A suitable bath for the treatment of eczema 

 and to destroy insects on the skin, may be made 

 by adding three tablespoonfuls of Pearson's 

 disinfectant fluid to a gallon of tepid water. 



Sulphur Baths: A valuable remedy for skin 

 diseases. Are made by dissolving one ounce of 

 sulphurated potash in a pail of tepid water, in 

 which the dog may be immersed for ten minutes. 



Biliousness : 



Symptoms: Severe vomiting, great thirst, 

 occasionally diarrhoea, refusal of food. In bad 

 cases the skin, eyes, and mouth turn yellowish. 



Treatment: First give dose castor oil, say 

 half teaspoonful to two tablespoonfuls, 1 with from 

 two l to ten drops of laudanum, or a pill containing 

 from a quarter to two grains of calomel, with the 

 eighth to one grain of powdered opium. Later, 

 if sickness is persistent, give from three to ten 



1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



