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Cases often arise when a dog cannot possibly 

 retain anything in the stomach, then it is 

 necessary to give nourishment by the rectum, 

 and it is astonishing what a long while a dog can 

 be kept alive and fairly strong in this way. 



The best kinds of food for giving by rectum 

 are peptonised milk, or peptonised beef- tea, 

 and peptonised beef suppositories. Burroughs 

 Wellcome's are good nutritive suppositories. As 

 to the quantity of milk to be given per rectum, 

 from one 1 to eight tablespoonfuls, just warmed, 

 every three or four hours alternatively with one 

 of Burroughs Wellcome's meat suppositories. 



In giving a nutritive enema, care must be 

 taken to pass it very slowly into the bowel so 

 as not to excite action, or the enema will be 

 immediately rejected, and afterwards just raise 

 the hind-quarters a little bit so that the fluid runs 

 well into the body, and hold the tail down for a 

 few minutes so that it cannot escape. 



The milk can be peptonised with Fairchild's 

 peptonised powders, which can be bought at any 

 chemist's shop. 



Brand's meat essences are excellent foods in 

 cases of stomach disorders. Benger's peptonised 

 beef jelly is a very easily digested preparation, 

 and very useful in cases of severe vomiting. 



Raw meat beef-tea, made by soaking for a 

 couple of hours half a pound of scraped lean 

 raw beef in half a pint of cold water, then stood 

 in front of a fire to get warm, then straining and 

 squeezing through a coarse tea-cloth. Or the 

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



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