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original cause of this case of dysentery. Dry browned toast soaked in meat 

 broths or gravy is a very good food to use in such cases of dysentery. 



DENT has written especially for this book the following on DYSENTERY. 



"This disease is frequently neglected with the false hope that it will cure 

 itself. It is a serious affection and demands prompt care and treatment. Causes 

 are inflammation of the mucous membrane of the lower bowels or large intes- 

 tines, accompanied by ulceration, and in many cases bleeding. The action of 

 poison's, eating of putrid food, rapid changes from heat to cold and vice versa, 

 also the after-effects of inflammation of the small intestines. 



"SYMPTOMS. At first there is a loss of appetite, restlessness, painful condi- 

 tion of the bowels, as attested by pressure on the belly. The nose is hot and 

 dry, the animal is feverish, and at first constipated. Afterwards the bowels, 

 after more or less straining, begin to move, the passages are putrid and more 

 disagreeable, become more frequent and tinged with blood as a result of injury 

 to the bowels, or with pus as a result of ulceration. 



"TREATMENT. Give a dose to a 40-lb. dog, y 2 -oz. each of olive oil and castor 

 oil. to which can be added from 10 to 20 drops of laudanum; smaller and larger 

 dogs a proportionate dose. Give injections of boiled starch water, with 20 to 40 

 drops of laudanum. If the disease hias become chronic it may be necessary to 

 try several different prescriptions before arriving at a cure. Here is one: 



Sub-nitrate of bismuth ^ 2 drams 



Ipecacuana powdered 30 grains 



Pepsin 1 dram 



Siastrase 4 grains 



Dose. Divide into 12 powders and give one three times a day. 

 "And here another: 



Acid taunic 2 drams 



Opium powdered 12 grains 



Pepsin 1 dram 



"Dose. Divide into 12 powders and give one three times a day. The foregoing- 

 sized doses are based on a 40-lb. dog. Smaller or larger dogs in proportion. Feed 

 white of egg, gelatin, beef tea, lime water and milk, toast and beef tea. Keep the 

 patient warm and auiet." 



SPECIAL ARTICLE AS TO DIARRHEA AND DYSENTERY. Since I began 

 writing this book, some months ago, I have found a new cure for these troubles, 

 which I have tried on several young dogs and puppies with great success; in 

 fact, it has prevented their being "dead ones," and saved me the loss of some 

 valuable specimens, due to having used ABBOTT'S DIARRHEA REMEDY, made by the 

 Abbott Alkaloidal Company, whose page advertisemet I solicited, maiuly because 

 of the great good I have found out that their tablets do to dogs saving the lives, 

 as they will do of many a youngster if given. My friend, Col. Roger D. Wil- 

 liams, wrote me of- the "Abbott Antiseptic Intestinal Tablets," not a dog remedy, 

 but made for humans, and which he had been using on dogs for a year, saving 

 the lives of many pups. I happened to have just at that time two puppies very 

 bad with a dysentery or diarrhea that I was failing to check, and in this progres- 

 ive age, when nothing seem to be impossible, I at once secured some of these 

 blets, put them into these two pups and saved them therefore this special 



