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of the mouth, face, or throat. In all such instances, clysters of 

 broth, gravy, or gruel will jtiford a very considerable quantity of 

 nourishment: a small proportion of opium, as twenty drops of 

 laudanum, may be given in each, to assist in retaining it within 

 the bowels. Astringent clysters, as starch, rice water, alumine 

 whey, infusion of red roses or of oak bark, are useful in violent 

 loosenesses. Purging clysters may be made of veal or mutton 

 broth, with a portion of salt or moist sugar added ; the effect may 

 be still further quickened by adding castor oil or Epsom salts. 



Clysters are very easily administered to dogs, and no apparatus 

 is so convenient for the purpose as the patent syringe of Read ; 

 a good domestic apparatus is found in the common pipe and 

 bladder also. The liquid used should be warm, but not hot ; 

 the quantity from three ounces to six or eight, according to the 

 size of the dog, &c. : the pipe should be greased previously to 

 its introduction, and the tail held down a minute or two after its 

 removal. 



BATHING. 



Both the warm and the cold bathings of dogs are attended, in 

 many cases, with the happiest effects. TVarm bathing proves 

 an excellent aid in many complaints, and in some it is of itself 

 a sovereign remedy. In inflammations, particularly of the bowels, 

 it is highly proper. In lumbago and other rheumatisms, which 

 are very common to dogs, it is attended with the best effects. In 

 obstinate costiveness, it will often relax the bowels when every 

 other remedy has failed. When internal injuries have been re- 

 ceived from accidents, it unloads the vessels and prevents inflam- 

 mation. In pupping, sometimes great difficulty is experienced ; 

 in which cases the warm bath frequently relaxes the parts, and 

 the young become more easily expelled. In convulsions and 

 spasms it is also excellent. In obstructed urine, from an inflamed 

 state of the neck of the bladder, it has proved a most efficacious 

 remedy. 



