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dency by the addition of the white of a raw egg to each 

 feed. 



In the mean time it would be absolutely necessary to 

 watch his droppings closely, and increase slightly the quan- 

 tity of "greens" did constipation exist ; whereas were a 

 tendency to diarrhoea noted the indications would be to 

 lessen the amount of these vegetables, and perhaps the 

 heartier foods, and feed for a time largely on new milk 

 that had been boiled and afterward fortified by the white 

 of a raw egg and a little boiled flour ; while in actual 

 diarrhoea did the milk appear undigested in the discharges 

 spoon feeding with the white of raw eggs, beaten lightly 

 in a little water, should be resorted to until marked 

 improvement had been noted, and one or two drops of 

 laudanum given every two or three hours if absolutely 

 required. 



At this point there intrudes a fact which has a special 

 bearing on feeding hardy dogs that must be pulled down 

 in weight. It is, that where a meal is made on one sub- 

 stance alone, whatever its nature — whether animal or 

 starchy — even if that is allowed to some excess the ten- 

 dency to fatten is less than it would be were the meal 

 made up of several substances and the quantity of all com- 

 bined was less than that of the one substance allowed. In 

 other words, feed a dog wholly on meats or wholly on 

 vegetable foods and they will not prove as fattening as a 

 smaller quantity of the same foods in combination. 



Resuming the consideration of the foods generally 

 required by the most common varieties of dogs out of con- 

 dition, what has been said of the nutritive value of raw 

 eggs in their entirety may lead to the supposition that 

 there are other fatty foods which would do quite as well as 

 they. But all such foods are not alike serviceable, for 

 many of them in any form are too great a burden to 



