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juice may be pressed from raw meat with one of 

 Dr. Klein's meat-squeezing machines. This is 

 very nourishing and easily digested, and dogs are 

 fond of it, and often will take it voluntarily when 

 refusing other foods. 



An excellent combined food for dogs very ill, 

 especially with distemper, when the patient is 

 very weak, or during convalescence, is made as 

 follows : — 



To a breakfast cup of milk, thickened with 

 Benger's food, add the white of an egg, a full 

 teaspoonful of invalid bovril, and a dessertspoonful 

 of brandy ; of this give from one l to six table- 

 spoonfuls every two or three hours alternately, 

 with some beaf-tea or meat extract. 



Messrs. Spratts' Patent have recently intro- 

 duced a new food for invalids. It is a granu- 

 lated meal, and they call it Invalid Food. It is 

 a most excellent preparation, and every dog I 

 have offered it to has eaten it with avidity. I 

 have found it a very useful diet for distemper 

 patients mixed with milk ; and I have given it 

 to puppies just weaned, and they have thriven 

 well on it. Though this new food is called 

 Invalid Food, it is an excellent preparation either 

 mixed with milk or soup for small dogs ; if meat 

 is required it can easily be added, as it contains 

 none, but I am told that it contains a special 

 meal, and that little or no meat is necessary. 



The same preparation is put up in the form 

 of biscuits which are crisp without being hard, 

 and small dogs eat them with pleasure. No 

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



