150 RECIPES. 



affected two or three times a day, with the following 

 mixture : oil of turpentine, two ounces ; spirit of harts- 

 horn, two ounces ; laudanum, two drachms ; sweet oil, 

 two ounces : the whole well mixed together. 



To make a Dog inclined to Copulate. 



Give him, in warm sugared milk, seven drops of 

 cantharides ; the same quantity for a bitch. 



When a Dog is seized with a Hovering in the Lights. 



Give him half a drachm of asafoetida, every other 

 night, well mixed in lard or butter. 



Mange 



Is generally occasioned by neglect, or want of cleanli- 

 ness; and not unfrequently from the want of a sufficiency 

 of nourishing food. In this case, external applications, 

 and nourishing food, are the best remedies; but if it arise 

 from repletion or surfeit, calomel and the most powerful 

 alteratives are required. Then take ^Ethiop's mineral, 

 one ounce ; cream of tartar, one ounce ; nitre, two 

 drachms : divide the whole, when mixed, into sixteen, 

 twenty, or twenty-four doses, according to the size of the 

 dog, and give one dose every morning and evening : but 

 when weakness or poor living occasions this disorder, 

 sulphur in their drink will be sufficient, with an occa- 



