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HAEMATURIA (Bloody Urine). Dogs have this trouble, being the result of 

 calculi situated in the bladder, kidney or urethra. Irritation and inflammation are 

 caused by these foreign bodies, and also injure the mucous membrane, producing 

 abrasions and superficial bleeding, the blood being passed with the urine. A blow 

 across the back may also cause it. Upon pressing the dog's loins pain is evinced, 

 and there is also a certain amount of irritation caused by passing the urine. 

 Blood is sometimes mixed with the latter, or it may be passed independently of it. 

 Give 10 to 60 drops of liquid extract of ergot every four hours, and if the urinary 

 passage is the seat of the injury, inject a weak solution of Condy's Fluid. The 

 food should consist for a time of Bovine or beef tea, with egg and milk to drink. 

 Under no circumstances administer a diuretic. 



HEPATITIS (Inflammation of the Liver). See JAUNDICE. 

 HERNIA, UMBILICAL. See NAVEL HERNIA. 



HICCOUGH arises from indigestion, and often annoys house pets that are 

 given improper food, such as sweets, etc. A wineglassful of lime water in a 

 tumbler of milk to drink, and for a 20-lb. dog 10 grains of bicarbonate of soda, and 

 10 drops of sal volatile in a tablespoonful of milk, will usually prove effectual. 

 Another remedy I have used is camphor water (not spirits). Give a 20 to 40-lb. 

 dog a teaspoonful and repeat in five minutes. 



HOMESICKNESS. See NOSTOMANJA. 



HUSK. Dogs are subject to a dry, husky cough, associated with derangement 

 of the stomach, and worms are often the originating cause. The symptoms are dry, 

 hot nose, disagreeable breath, inflamed eye, and increased discharge from nose, 

 with more or less general fever; the dog after coughing retches, bringing up por- 

 tions of frothy mucus. The treatment consists in keeping the dog free from damp 

 and cold, 'feeding on warm, easily digested food, and the administration of a dose 

 of salad oil every third morning, and the following two sets of pills, two a day of 

 each, given alternately: 



Pills for Huxky Cough. Powdered opium, 6 grains; tartarised antimony, 1 

 grain; compound squill pill, 1 dram; mix and divide into twenty-four pills, and 

 give one to a 20-lb. dog twice a day. 



Tonic Stomachic Pills. Pure Sulphate of iron, 12 grains; dried bicarbonate of 

 soda, 24 grains; extract of camomile, 24 grains; mix and divide into twelve pills. 

 One of these is a dose for a 20-lb. dog. Not infrequently worms in the stomach will 

 cause husk; if so, a full dose of ipecacuanha wine to cause vomiting should be 

 given. 



As I am writing I have just had such a case of a dry, hard and incessant cough 

 in an eight-months-old bull terrier pup, which cough suddenly appeared without 

 any apparent cause, the dog acting and seeming well, only for this dry, hard cough. 

 She had been fully, as I supposed at the time, treated for worms, and thought she 

 was rid of them, but could not account for the cough. I was on the Iqokout and 

 seen her have a passage of a bloody and mucous nature. Toward night I concluded 

 it might be worms, gave her a dose of Sergeant's Sure Shot after she had fasted 

 from breakfast till supper time, and the result was finding several small thread 

 worms in her passage after the vermifuge had worked, and here was the cause of 

 the dry, hard cough. I followed this up the next morning with a second dose 

 of "Sure Shot,'" got more thread worms, and the bitch feeling much better, want- 

 ing to eat, and her cough very much better, which I had been treating all this time 



