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one-half a teaspoonful, to be dissolved in about one-half a 

 teacupful of water and poured down the patient's throat, 

 while for toys it should be decreased one-half. And this 

 medicine, in like doses, should be repeated at intervals of 

 three hours during the first day, once in six hours the 

 next, and three times daily throughout the remainder of 

 the week. 



During the period in which the breast-pump is in use 

 the puppies must not be allowed to nurse the mother, but 

 kept near a fire, in a basket lined with well-warmed flannel 

 or blanket, and treated as follows : — 



Put four tablespoonfuls of lime-water into a cup and add 

 to the same sixteen drops of laudanum. Of this mixture 

 give each puppy one teaspoonful. Half an hour later, to 

 every one that is still crying and moaning give another 

 teaspoonful of the mixture. After that, until they become 

 quiet, give one teaspoonful every hour to all that moan or 

 cry. 



No effort should be made to nourish them until the 

 fourth or fifth hour after they have been taken from their 

 mother. Then they should be given a mixture of cow's 

 milk and lime-water in equal parts, to which should be 

 added boiling water in quantity merely sufficient to make 

 the whole "blood warm." And of this four or five tea- 

 spoonfuls should be administered every two hours, by 

 means of a spoon. 



On the day following that on which the acidity was 

 detected, the milk in the mean time having all been drawn 

 out three or four times as advised, the puppies may be 

 returned to their mother and permitted to nurse, provided 

 always her milk is no longer acid. If, however, it is still 

 sufficiently so to turn litmus paper red the puppies must 

 be kept from her and nourished artificially until the soda 

 has rendered the milk secretion alkaline or neutral ; in 



