118 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



pectoral sound, and only after this has repeatedly been 

 heard is the stomach able to cast off its contents. 



The description denotes nothing calculated to suggest 

 that the organ whose derangement is so marked should 

 be rudely tampered with. It is true the dog can readily 

 be made to vomit. No creature is more easily moved in 

 that way ; but in such a circumstance reason should per- 

 ceive no license to thrust emetics down the animal's 



throat. The organ which is so readily excited, by the 

 fact asserts its sensibility, and on that very account ought 

 to be the more respected. I have found oftener difficulty 

 to check this tendency than reason to provoke it. Re- 

 peatedly are tonics rejected, and only by the reduction 

 of the dose can the dog's stomach be made to retain the 

 medicine. The emetics in common use are, moreover, far 

 too violent. Antimonial wine, from half a teaspoonful to 

 a dessertspoonful, is much preferable to tartar emetic and 

 calomel. 



On no account should such doses as Blaine prescribes 

 ever be exhibited. Youatt in his recommendation is 

 much better, but even the amount he orders is too great. 



