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here the advantage of the subcutaneous injection 

 of apomorphia comes in. This may also be 

 repeated in a quarter of an hour, if the vomiting 

 has not been free. Besides the emetic, some 

 medicine is necessary to relieve the spasms. For 

 this there is nothing better than chloral and 

 bromide of potassium. From fifteen 1 grains to 

 two scruples of each may be given in from one * 

 to three tablespoonfuls of water, if the dog can 

 be made to swallow ; and half the quantity of 

 each may be given again in twenty or thirty 

 minutes, and repeated, if necessary, in half an 

 hour. When the dog is unable to swallow, from 

 two x to six minims of nitrite of amyl, held to the 

 nose on a pocket-handkerchief, is useful. This 

 may be repeated in a quarter of an hour, or 

 chloroform may be given. Also, inject into the 

 rectum from one x half to two drachms of laudanum 

 in from one x to four tablespoonfuls of water, which 

 repeat in a quarter of an hour, and again in 

 another fifteen minutes if the paroxysms continue. 



After the severe symptoms have passed, and 

 the dog is weak and prostrate, from a quarter 1 

 to two teaspoonfuls of brandy added to some 

 milk may be administered, and repeated every 

 half hour for a time. 



Arsenic : 



Symptoms : The dog, shortly after taking the 

 poison, becomes restless. Violent sickness soon 

 commences, the vomited matter being mixed with 

 blood. There is also acute diarrhoea, accompanied 

 by severe straining, and a good deal of blood is 

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



