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every other night 3grs. of Dr. James' Fever Powder, will 

 then prove of great benefit. 



Worms are the greatest trouble met with in rearing. 

 Puppies suffer from a great variety of tape and round 

 worms, and these are the cause of derangement of 

 stomach and bowels, of severe fits, skin disease, loss of 

 coat, and general unthriftiness ; 15grs of areca nut, with 

 3grs. of santonine, for puppies six months old others in 

 proportion to age is a good and safe expellent. It 

 should be given in the morning, and a dessert-spoonful 

 of castor oil an hour after all before feeding ; but 

 warm porridge or broth t may be given immediately after 

 the oil. 



Of external parasites, there are the invisible mange mite, 

 the flea, louse, and tick, the presence of any one of which 

 is a discredit to the kennelman. White precipitate, rubbed 

 well through the coat and on the skin, and brushed out 

 after a couple of hours, destroys lice and ticks. Wash- 

 ing in quassia water (loz. of chips boiled for ten 

 minutes in 2galls. of water) kills fleas ; and for mange, 

 bi-sulphite of lime, or Spratts' mange lotion, or Bishop's 

 lotion, may be relied on. Many skin diseases arising from 

 functional derangement are mistaken for mange. They 

 require internal remedies, and, unlike true mange, are 

 non-contagious. 



The distemper is the other great scourge of the kennel, 

 and is specially a disease of puppies. It is contagious, 

 and so puppies may be easily inoculated with the discharge 

 from nose or eyes of others when it is desired to have 

 all the kennel under treatment at once in preference to 

 the disease lingering on for months. Distemper varies so 



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