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required. Plasmon may also be tried mixed 

 with milk, and Valentine's meat juice with milk. 

 Of this latter from fifteen x drops to a teaspoonful, 

 with one 1 to four teaspoonfuls of milk. Invalid 

 Bovril may be given instead of Valentine's for a 

 change in the same proportions, but fresh meat 

 juice from raw meat is as strong as anything. As 

 to stimulants, there is no doubt, when the doe is 

 very low and the pulse weak, from ten 1 drops to 

 a teaspoonful of brandy does good. When the 

 dog is eating all right himself, it may be given 

 in a little water after food, but when one is 

 drenching the food it should be mixed with it. 



There is no doubt that dogs who continue 

 with a good appetite through distemper do 

 much better, and have a better chance of 

 recovering, no matter how severe the attack 

 may be, than those bad feeders who refuse food 

 and have to be drenched. A little food taken 

 voluntarily does much more good than a lot 

 forced upon the dog ; therefore I advise 

 tempting the patient with a variety of diet, so 

 as to get him to eat something himself — of 

 course, given in small quantities, particularly 

 when the case is bad. I always commence with 

 soup and milk alternately, mixed with bread, 

 biscuits, or rice ; as the dog gets tired of these, 

 I add a little meat, say from a sheep's head or 

 stewed neck of mutton ; for a change some fish, 

 boiled tripe, or stewed rabbit, and if the dog 

 goes off these I try scraped raw meat. I never 

 commence forcing food if I can help it, for I 

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



