154 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



dog, as much as possible, capable of obeying its instinct ; 

 but always let the bed be ample, as during the night the 

 shivering generally prevails, and the cold fit is entirely 

 independent of the heat to be felt at the skin, or the tem- 

 perature of the season. Let the dog be kept away from 

 the fire, for, if permitted, it will creep to the hearth, and 

 may be injured by the falling cinders, when the burn will 

 not perhaps readily heal. A cold or rather cool place is 

 to be selected one protected from wet, free from damp, 

 and not exposed to wind or draughts. The kennel, if 

 properly constructed, is the better house, for dogs do 

 best in the open air ; the only objection to which is, the 

 chance it offers of the animal being drenched with rain. 

 If the kennel can be placed under an open outhouse, I 

 should always have it put there ; and what else I would 

 recommend is, of course, told by the line of conduct 

 which I pursue. 



Medicinal measures are not to be so quickly settled. A 

 constant change of the agents employed will be impera- 

 tive, and the practitioner must be prepared to meet every 

 symptom as it appears. The treatment is almost wholly 

 regulated by the symptoms, and as the last are various, 

 of course the mode of vanquishing them cannot be uni- 

 form. To guide us, however, there is the well-known 

 fact, the disease we have to subdue is of a febrile kind, 

 and has a decided tendency to assume a typhoid charac- 

 ter ; therefore, whatever is done must be of a description 

 not likely to exhaust, depletion is altogether out of the 

 question. The object we have to keep in view is the 



