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treated, they are very trivial affairs. An ethereal enema, 

 and a dose or two of the medicine, will generally restore 

 the animal. No other physic is needed, but greater 

 attention to the feeding is required. Excessive exercise 

 will cause them, and the want of exercise will also bring 

 them on. The open air is of every service, and will do 

 more for the perfect recovery than almost anything else. 

 When the scarf-skin peels off, a cold bath with plenty of 

 friction, and a walk afterwards, is frequently highly 

 beneficial ; but there are dogs with which it does not 

 agree, and, consequently, the action must be watched. 

 Never persevere with anything that seems to be injurious. 

 If the mange breaks out, a simple dressing as directed 

 for that disease will remove it, no internal remedies being 

 in such a case required. 



I cannot close my account of distemper without cau- 

 tioning the reader against the too long use of quinine. 

 It is a most valuable medicine, and, as a general rule, no 

 less safe than useful. I do not know that it can act as a 

 poison, or destroy the life ; but it can produce evils 

 hardly less, and more difficult to cure, than those it was 

 employed to eradicate. The most certain and most potent 

 febrifuge, and the most active tonic, it can also induce 

 blindness and deafness ; and by the too long or too large 

 employment of quinine a fever is induced, which hangs 

 upon the dog, and keeps him thin for many a month. 

 Therefore, when the more violent stages of the disease 

 have been conquered, it should no longer be employed. 

 Other tonics will then do quite as well, and a change of 



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