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on my dogs, and with great success, in checking up this trouble, which is often 

 caused in dogs at a show by the change in water drank there and on the trip. 

 I can send these by mail for fifty cents. A tablet or pill is often more easily 

 administered than a liquid. 



A party wrote as to a diarrhea from distemper in a six-months-old pointer 

 puppy, just over the distemper, that is getting along nicely and has a fairly good 

 appetite, but is bothered with diarrhea. His passages are very thin and very 

 offensive. The puppy tries to do something quite often, and then walks all over 

 the kennel yard and/ passes a few drops only. At the first stage of the distemper 

 I doctored him for worms and took many from him. For the last five or six 

 weeks I have fed him on eggs and milk, boiled together, with a few crackers in 

 each mess. The diarrhea seems to hold him back so he don't get fat as he should. 

 During the distemper I gave him Glover's Distemper Cure and Sergeant's Condi- 

 tion Pills. The answer was to give the dog the following, and, if necessary, to 

 repeat the dose: 



Chalk v 5 grains 



Laudanum 5 grains 



Ether 5 drops 



Mix and give in soup or milk; continue same feeding and to also give dry, well- 

 browned toast soaked in meat broths or meat gravy made with flour in it. 



DYSENTERY. This is a more dangerous disease than diarrhea, which, when 

 protracted, sometimes causes it, and may be described as diarrhea in its most 

 aggravated form; there is generally feverishness present, considerable pain, and 

 the evacuations are often black in color and very offensive, and followed by 

 discharge of a gelati nous-like substance mixed with blood. The loss of strength 

 is very rapid, and the dog must be supported by drenching with beef tea and a 

 little port wine in it, the medicine and general treatment being the same as in 

 diarrhea. In one case of this kind, fn a retriever, I gave two doses of twenty 

 drops of chlorodyne with very good effect. The discharges in dysentery are 

 immediately caused by inflammation of the mucous membrane lining in intes- 

 tines, and are distinguished from diarrhea by containing no fecal matter except 

 occasionally when it is voided in lumps; but the ordinary evacuations in 

 dysentery, although they vary in appearance, are generally slimy looking and 

 composed of mucus mixed *with blood, and in the advanced stages of the disease, 

 pus is discharged and shreds of the mucus membrane, very offensive in character. 

 The disease is very weakening, causes great pain and straining, and is very 

 difficult to manage; it often occurs in protracted cases of distemper, and carries 

 off the patient. 



In treating dysentery the "anodyne mixture" given in diarrhea treatment 

 should be tried in the first instance alone, and if ineffectual., one of the following 

 pills for a dog of 60-lb. to 80 : lb. every four hours may be tried with good results. 

 For smaller dogs half a pill. 



PILLS FOR DYSENTERY. 



Take of tannic acid 2 scruples and pure sulphate of copper 1 dram, powdered 

 opium 20 grains, mixed, and divide into twenty* pills; or if a liquid medicine 

 should be preferred, the following will answer: Take of pure sulphate of copper 

 48 grains dissolve in 2 ounces of cinnamon water; add % ounce of tincture of 

 catechu, % ounce of laudanum, 6 drams of aromatic spirits of ammonia, and make 

 up to 12 ounces with cinnamon water. Dose for an SO-lb. dog two tablespooufuls 



