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alone, and is peculiarly useful in preventing the re- 

 currence of the complaint. It keeps dogs cool, and 

 obviates tiie ill effects of animal food, and of confine- 

 ment. In s}>orting dogs it is very useful, giving them 

 wind, anil increasing their scent, by cleansing their 

 blood ; for no dog will scent whose blood is tainted 

 with mansje or other foulness : this is most certain. 

 These Alterative Powders prevent accumu- 

 lation of fat, of niiik ; they prevent also the coring of 

 the miik in the teats, and wheezing in the breast. All 

 fat dogs, especially those wiio are confined much, 

 should have regular recourse to alteratives to" keep 

 them in health. Dogs with mange of long standing, 

 those with cankered ears, or chronic asthmatic 

 coughs, swelled necks, or cored teats ; all these can 

 only be cured by a regular course of alteratives. 



ASTHMA. 

 T>0"s are verv subject to a fixed chronic condi, 

 which, however it may not answer in all its characte- 

 ristics to human asthma, it is yet sufficiently like it to 

 warrant our calling it by this familiar term. Except 

 Distemper, their is hardly any disease so prevalent ; it 

 shortens the life of thousands. It is wholly the effect 

 of a deviation from natural habits, and hence is only 

 observed among dogs who have lived a confined life, 

 or are suffered to grow too fat. It begins at very uncer- 

 tain periods : in those who are very much confined and 

 very improperly fed, it will come on at two or three 

 years old ; in those less improperly managed, it does 

 not make its attack till six or seven years old ; nd ia 

 some it does not appear till even a later period : but, 

 sooner or later, most of the dogs who live confined 



