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 it does, it must be omitted. This plan may be con- 

 tinued for four davs, when the emetic shouldbe a(>ain 

 repeated ; and which should be resorted to oftener 

 or seldomer, as the cough is more or less a troublesome 

 svmptorn. The body should uot be costive, but may 

 be gently ODeued by castor oil ; but by no means 

 should violent purging b^ brought on ; on the con- 

 trary, every means should be taken to avoid purging^ 

 which is one of the most fatal symptoms that a dog 

 can have, and, whenever it appears, it should be im- 

 mediately stopped. Rice, or starch, may be given as 

 food, but the most efficacious means of checking the 

 looseness consists in giving balls made of equal parts 

 of gum arabic and chalk. These should be given two 

 or three times a day till the purgirig is stopped, when 

 the former treatment may be resumed. 



In case fits come on, a strong emetic should be im- 

 mediately given, and the dog kept very warm. Should 

 the disease take a putrid turn, that is, should the 

 doa smell much, run much matter from the nose, 

 and this matter become bloody, if he gets weak and 

 refuses food, the followisig balls will in that case be 

 necessary: Distemper Powder, one part-; Peruvian 

 Bark, and Chamomile Flower Powder, two parts of 

 each : mix with honey, and give as balls two or three 

 times a dav, as much as the stomach will bear. 

 Should it purge, give ten or twenty drops of laudanum, 

 or a quarter of a grain of opium with each dose. 

 Sometimes, \s ithout any great apparent putridity, a 

 dco- lint'^ers on a lonj^ time, in which case it is not ne- 

 cessary to give a Distv^iiper Powder more thrai once 

 in four or live days : nor is it always proper in these 

 cas^sto give the Jan.es's Pov.dcr for any great leugtb 



