CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 375 



As tliere is a pronounced tendency to wasting, noth- 

 ing can be of greater importance than that every means 

 shall be employed to feed to maintain the strength. Good 

 feeding is half the battle, certainly in this disease. The 

 author can not giv^e any better advice than to feed much 

 as in the case of a human being with a very capricious 

 appetite. 



At the outset, if there is a troublesome cough and ten- 

 dency to retching, an emetic of fifteen to twenty grains of 

 sulphate of zinc with a teaspoonful of wine of ipecac, for 

 an ordinary-sized puppy of six months or over, may do 

 good. The bowels had better be unloaded, and sulphur is 

 about the best remedy, or sulphur and cream of tartar ; 

 castor oil or syrup of buckthorn will do ; but no strong 

 medicine should be given to open the bowels. 



As the fever may be decided for a few days (103° to 

 106° Fahr.), the importance of plenty of fresh air and a 

 nutritious but unstimulating diet can be appreciated. 



However, if a dog will not take milk, milk and eggs, 

 rice and milk, rice pudding, bread and milk, or such like, 

 he may have a little beef or mutton cut fine or grated. 

 This may act as a tonic to his disordered digestive organs, 

 and do more for him than any medicine ; but the first 

 stage is not the time for feeding on meat largely. 



Those who believe in antipyretics will give them at 

 this stage. For our own part we would not, as a rule, but 

 would save the stomach of the dog as much as possible, 

 lest it give out and pave the way for a fatal issue. 



One or two large doses of quinine, which we always 

 combine with bromide of potassium, as it renders it much 

 less exciting to the dog, may do good — e. g., five to eight 



