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The latter may be repeated in half an hour if necessary. The effect of these may often be 

 aided by giving the animal a few whiffs of chloroform, or by slowly igniting common match or 

 nitre paper under or near to the dog's nose. 



2. The treatment during the intervals between each fit is of the greatest importance. Should 

 the dog's bowels be confined, or the stools any way unhealthy, we must, on the morning after, 

 begin our treatment by administering a dose of castor oil. He must not be over-dosed, however, 

 for aperients always increase the tendency to dyspepsia, if any such exist ; besides, they weaken 

 an animal, and this must be avoided. 



The compound rhubarb (or Gregory's) powder may be given once a day in doses of from 

 ten to forty grains, made into a bolus with a little soft soap and a little of any simple extract. 



Having regulated the bowels, we must trust in some measure to tonics, or tonics and 

 alteratives combined, remembering however that medicine alone will not regenerate the dog to 

 that state of health which will render asthmatic fits impossible. The animal must have (i) 

 regular exercise, he must be taken out at the same time every morning, and have two hours 

 at least of good romping or running daily. He must be kept in the open air as much as 

 possible, and for this purpose the kennel should be out of doors in some sheltered situation. 

 (2) Before he goes out every morning he must have a cold shower or bucket bath, and a rub 

 down with a rough towel. (3) His diet must be altered in toto, and it must be diminished 

 in quantity, but be upon the whole nourishing. (4) Any form of skin disease which the 

 animal suffers from will be usually of an ekzematous kind for its treatment vide article en 

 ekzema. (5) As to medicine: if the dog is much troubled with cough, some degree of chronic 

 bronchitis is doubtless present, squills or ipecacuanha would give ease, or solution of morphia, 

 or paregoric, but the latter two must not be given in too large doses. At the same time tonics 

 may be given. As a rule small doses of quinine do good, or quinine with iron or cod-liver oil 

 if the animal be thin, or an}' of the bitter tonics, the object being to increase the appetite, improve 

 the blood, and get the dog into a better habit of body generally. 



We mentioned alteratives ; we usually combine these with tonics, and have found most good 

 come from the use of iodide of potassium and arsenic, the iodide to be given in conjunction with 

 quinine 



R lod. potass. ... ... gr. \ ad gr. iij. 



Quinae ... ... ... gr. \ ad gr. ij. 



Ext. bellad. ... ... gr. T V ad gr. . 



Ext. tarax. ... ... gr. iij. ad gr. x. 



F pil. j. M. 



Ter die. 



Give this for three weeks, after which change your tonic for a fortnight for some simple 

 bolus 



U- Zinci. sulph. ... ... gr. J ad gr. v. 



Ext. tarax. ... ... gr. iij. ad gr. x. 



Kxt. gentian. ... ... gr. ij. ad gr. v. 



F' pil. j. M. 



Ter die. 



Arsenic may be tried instead of the iodide in cases where there is any determination to the 

 skin and ekzematous humours. The simple liquor arsenicalis is to be preferred. Full directions 

 for its administration arc laid down under the treatment for ekzema. 



