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medicines should not be given till the bowels have been 

 cleared and the fever reduced. During the disease, the 

 discharge from the nose and eyes should be wiped away 

 as often as possible, and the bed kept dry and clean. 

 When taken out for air, the dog should be encouraged 

 to eat grass, and to lap in running water. 



When a vomit is necessary in distemper or any other 

 disease, a teaspoonful or a tablespoonful of common 

 salt, in a teacupful of warm water, will produce one; 

 or tartar emetic may be given, from one to four grains. 



Another Way to Cure the Distemper. 



Give from four to seven grains turbith mineral, in 

 boiled liver, shredded fine, and beat: this to be re- 

 peated. Put a seton behind each ear, to prevent its 

 seizing the cap of the brain : give him plenty of warm 

 broth, and keep him in the dry. If the inside of the 

 tuel should make an external appearance, which often 

 happens at two or three months old, boil one ounce of 

 logwood, cut small, in a quart of milk, till it is reduced 

 one-fourth ; strain it off, and give a teacupful every 

 morning, till it disappears. Or two ounces of dragon's 

 blood pulverized, and a piece of alum the size of a 

 walnut, boiled in three pints of skimmed milk, till 

 reduced to a quart. A teacupful of this to be given 

 every day *. 



* As any thing that holds out a hope of succour in this formid- 

 able disease merits trial, it is here stated that Mr. Coate's Distemper 

 Balls have been pronounced of extraordinary excellence by many 

 high authorities. 



