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place for the benefit of himself and his friends. " Such 

 being the opinion of one of our most eminent veterinary 

 surgeons, I thought I could not do better than act on his 

 suggestion and republish the note and his comments in the 

 most conspicuous place over which I had control. 



This volume is not intended to deal fully with the 

 diseases and ailments of dogs, and readers who wish to 

 know more about them may with advantage study 

 " Stonehenge on the Dog in Health and Disease," and 

 Professor Woodroffe Hill's " Diseases of the Dog." If 

 lower-priced volumes than these be required I can recom- 

 mend the shilling work, "The Diseases of Dogs," pub- 

 lished by L. U. Gill, ijo, Strand, London. Then excellent 

 remedies for the various disorders are. nowadays made up 

 in handv forms bv several firms, and those of Spratt's 

 Patent, 24 and 25, Fenchurch-street, London, already 

 mentioned, I have found to be especially useful and suc- 

 cessful. Their dog medicine chest, or portable surgery, 

 is the handiest and cheapest thing of the kind which can 

 be imagined. This enterprising company likewise issue, at 

 the modest price of sixpence, a useful handbook, " The 

 Common Sense of Dog Doctoring," which ought to have a 

 corner in anv house where a dog is kept, and no domicile 

 should be without at least one specimen of the canine 

 race, who will earn his living as a watch dog and as an 

 agreeable companion. 



There is a possibility, though not a probability, that the 

 fox terrier bitch when she has pupped may die, or be too ill 

 to suckle her family. Then a foster mother must be pro- 

 cured, whose pups having been destroyed, she should be 

 allowed to become a little distended with milk, and one of 

 the fox terriers placed with her and put to suckle. In 



