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 ivhere it is necessary, from peculiar circumstances^ 

 to destroy a dog, this is one of the best means. 

 Dissection cannot detect this poison with any cer- 

 tainty ; and unless an emetic is given within three 

 minutes after the poison has been taken, provided the 

 dose has been a full one, no benefit will arise from 

 any medicine. 



It is peculiar that this vegetable substance is most 

 irregular in its action. Some dogs are hardly af-^ 

 fected by it, while others are destroyed by a very 

 slight dose. 



Opium, which forms a very powerful and com- 

 mon poison to the human subject, has no deleterious 

 effect on dogs, no quantity being sulRcient to destroy* 

 It becomes a most admirable remedy, and agrees 

 with them extremely, b»tt will in no instance, nor in 

 any quantity, prove even seriously injurious. 



When it can be ascertained that a dog has taken 

 either arsenic or corrosive sublimate, an emetic com- 

 posed of sutficicut ipecacuanha (say frop.i one to two 

 scruples), with the same quantity of liver of sulphur, 

 should be immediatelv sjiven, and this should be done 

 even though the stomach is already sick. If the 

 vomiting, however, has been long and violent, then 

 give only the liver of sulphur dissolved in boiled milk, 

 and repeat it every hour or two ; throw some up as a 

 clyster also in milk. When the stomach seems a 

 little appeased, give laudanum and castor oil. 



When white lead has been taken, give active pur- 

 gatives of calomel, in doses of from five to eight and 

 ten grains, and repeat till the bowels are perfectly 

 clear, which forms the most judicious and efficacious 

 treatment. 



