544 THE BOOK OF THE DOG. 



Nitrate of Silver. Common salt. Give emetics, if vomiting not present. 



Lead Salts. Emetics. Milk and raw eggs. Sulphate of soda and sulphate of magnesia are 

 antidotes. 



Corrosive Sublimate. Encourage the vomiting by diluents, as in arsenical poisoning. Raw 

 eggs, being albuminous in a high degree, form the best antidote, or the gluten of wheat, as flour 

 mixed with milk. Afterwards keep up the system. Give demulcent drinks, and a dose or 

 two of morphia. 



Strychnine and Nux Vomica. Emetics, and the vomiting to be kept up. Antidotes animal 

 charcoal, olive oil ; perfect rest and quiet ; hydrate of chloral, to diminish the spasms ; and a 

 purgative enema. 



Aconite. Give emetics. Castor-oil ; brandy in strong coffee. 



Iodine and its compounds. Encourage the vomiting. Plenty of gruel, and thin starch in full 

 doses. 



Opium and Morphia. Sulphate of zinc as an emetic, or sulphate of copper. Strong coffee as 

 a drench. Electric shocks to the spine. 



Prussic Acid. No known reliable antidote. Ammonia to the nostrils. Fresh air, and strong 

 stimulating to chest. 



Carbolic Acid. It is not an uncommon thing for a dog that has been washed with too strong 

 a lotion of carbolic acid, for some skin disease, or to kill vermin, to be seized with shivering and 

 every symptom of depression, and die within an hour. Friction while the dog is in a warm bath, 

 and the internal exhibition of plenty of brandy-and-water, with a few drops of laudanum, is all 

 that can be thought of as likely to avert fatal consequences. 



In all cases where life is quite despaired of it is best to let the animal pass away quietly, 

 aided by drenching with large doses of hydrate of chloral in water. 



In cases of poisoning the greatest difficulty to be contended with rests in the fact that it is 

 difficult to know what a dog has swallowed, and there is, unfortunately, no universal antidote. 



