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Spirits chloroform % dram 



Wine of ipecac T 3 drams 



Tincture of isquills 5 drams 



Simple syrup 1 ounce 



Aqua to make 4 ounces 



There are a great many other good cough remedies, in fact anything good for 

 the master s cough is good for the dog's, and I herewith give several prescriptions 

 that I know to he good by having tried them. 



A dog that ifc well and in good condition may have a dry cough, does not cough 

 very much at a time, but quite often. I have cured such cases with the following: 



Carbonate of ammoniacum 3 drams 



Fluid extract of belladonna 1 . . 2 drams 



Gum camphor 5 drams 



Syrup of squills 5 drams 



Simple syrup 4 ounces 



Fluid extract of licorice 4 ounces 



Dose for a mediunnsized dog, a teaspoonful every four hours. This is a 

 very good cough syrup, barge dogs could have iy 2 teaspoonsful. 



Another good cough syrup is: 



Syrup morphia 30 drops 



Chlorate potash , 30 grains 



Simple syrup 3 ounces 



Dose for average-sized clog, a teaspoonful three or four times daily. 



I have a dog that has a dry and husky cough three or four times a year that I 

 cure up in a couple of days by swabbing his throat out once a day with a teaspoon- 

 ful of chloride of potash dissolved in half a glass of water. A small piece of sponge 

 securely fastened onto a whalebone will answer to apply this. Run it down quick 

 and draw out at once so as not to choke the dog. 



Dr. Clayton makes one of the best cough syrups I have ever used. It is put up 

 in a liberal sized bottle, and I can send it by express for 50 cents, or by mail for 60 

 cents. I have found it good tor most all kinds of coughs and ani using it. 



A bull terrier bitch under a year old became affected with a troublesome cough, 

 which steadily grew worse; was not sick otherwise, appetite good. Cough was 

 worse when she was exercising. For this I used 



Morphine sulphate V/ s . grains 



Cyanide potassium 2 grains 



Syrup of wild cherry 3 ounces 



Dose was a teaspoonful every four hours, and found it effected a cure. 



CONSTIPATION. Watch your dog every day as to condition of his bowels. A 

 dog properly fed and exercised will hardly ever be troubled with constipation . I 

 turn my dogs out into their yard each morning and stay there a few minutes and 

 watch them. Thefr first inclination is to hunt a place and empty themselves (a 

 dog's natural habit). If I find one that is constipated, by this I mean unnaturally 

 so, where passage is too hard and crumbles up into diist by putting your foot on it, 

 I watch that dog that night, and if still the same it gets a dose of castor 0iil the 

 next morning, unless as sometimes happens, the bowels have meanwhile corrected 

 themselves. No dog should go over twenty-four hours without a passage, and better 



