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every four hours; smaller dogs in proportion. Clysters of starch, with one dram 

 of laudanum in each, are often very beneficial, and one may be thrown up every 

 four or five hours. 



The patient should have perfect rest, all evacuations should be instantly 

 removed, and the place where the patient is (which should be warm but airy) 

 kept sweet with disinfectants. The food should consist of pearl barley, rice," 

 arrowroot or wheaten Hour, boiled in milk, varied with strong beef tea slightly 

 thickened with stale bread or plain biscuit. 



I have cured dogs of dysentery of long standing, obstinate cases, with the 

 following prescription, which was found to be very valuable in the treatment of 

 such cases in the human race of soldiers who contracted this disease in the war 

 of '61. A friend of mine, a noted doctor in human practice, gave it to me ana 

 I "tried it on a dog," succeeding in effecting a permanent cure, since which time I 

 have used it in several such cases with success. Take sima ruba bark, two ounces, 

 and put it in a quart of water, boil this down to a pint, then strain and boil 

 this down to half a pint. (Be careful to not burn.) The dose for a dog the size 

 of a pointer would be a teaspoonful three times a day. Large dogs like a St. 

 Bernard, two teaspoonfuls at a dose, while very small toy dogs like a Yorkshire 

 terrier, should have a half teaspoonful at a time. 



The following prescription was furnished me by Mr. J. A. Rogers, of Ironton. 

 Ohio, after trying it on his pointer that had suffered with chronic dysentery for 

 over a month till the dog was a skeleton and could hardly stand up. This dog 

 had been treated for worms, at first supposed to be the cause of the trouble, and 

 several well-known remedies tried, but no worms 'and no stoppage of the dysen- 

 tery. As a last resort he tried this proscription, and cured the dog. From a full 

 history of this extreme case, furnished me by several letters during its duration, 

 I have concluded that this is a very valuable remedy and likely to cure when 

 everything else fails: 



Specific aconite 10 drops 



Specific baptisia 10 drops 



Specific ipecac 15 drops 



Specific ecef olta 1 dram 



Glycerine 4 drams 



Add water (distilled) to make 8 ounces 



Of the first four articles use only LOYD BROS.* preparations a Cincinnati wholesale 

 drug firm. If your druggist doesn't have them in stock, he can get them by order- 

 ing from Lloyd Bros.', or I can get this prescription filled and send you. The 

 dose would be at. first until you see a change for the better <a teaspoonful every 

 hour until three or four doses are given, then every two hours. Of course, if 

 the patient should be a very young puppy, the dose should be smaller, but such 

 cases of dysentery are seldom found in puppies, except when a very great loose- 

 ness of the bowels appears, generally due to worms; such cases very likely will 

 be cured by proper worm treatment, which find under heading of WORMS. In 

 above prescription the ecefolta is most excellent for the blood, blood-poisoning 

 and as a disinfectant to kill germs, and to reduce fever, which every dog has in 

 a case of dysentery. Dog also has a cold which the aconite will relieve. The 

 baptisia is for fever and the blood, the ipecac for the stomach and mucous 

 membrane of the stomach and bowels. I will add here that this remedy was 

 intended by the regular doctor, who prescribed it for this dog for humans, but 

 was tried, and successfully, on the dog in this case. Worms may have been the 



