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poisoning, accompanied by peculiar symptoms im- 

 plicating the digestive and nervous systems. 



Antimony gives rise to much the same symptoms 

 as arsenic, and, like the latter, usually proves fatal. 

 Tartar emetic is a white powder, but a very deadly 

 compound of antimony, and only prescribed in 

 minute doses for dogs when it is needful to give an 

 emetic. Very little can be done in poisoning by 

 arsenic or antimony, but small doses of brandy may 

 be used to overcome the prostration. A solution 

 of iron is the correct antidote, but in suspected cases 

 the best plan is to have professional advice, as in all 

 other instances of poisoning, no matter of whatever 

 nature. 



Some Methods Adopted for the Destruction of 

 Dogs 



Circumstances frequently render it expedient that 

 some canine favourite should be as speedily and as 

 mercifully as possible destroyed, and as a means to 

 this end various methods are employed. One of 

 the most expeditious comprises the injection into 

 the thorax, by means of a hypodermic syringe, of 

 twenty or thirty drops of Scheel's prussic acid. The 

 syringe is first of all charged with the acid, and the 

 needle of it pushed through the skin between the 

 spaces of the ribs, and then through the flesh (inter- 

 costal muscles) into the chest, and the piston of the 



