94 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



it relieves the spasms. The dose is the eighth of a grain for small dogs, and 

 about the quarter of a grain for the large ones, given in a teaspoonful of water; 

 but the best way of administering it is by injecting it under the skin with a 

 hypodermic syringe then from three to eight minims of the one in fifty solu- 

 tions is to be given. 



"I always advise persons who keep a number of valuable dogs to have a isolu 

 tioii of apomorphia by them ready for emergency, for while it is being obtained 

 the patient may die, and if huntsmen would always carry a small bottle of solu- 

 tion with them, many a valuable hound's life might be saved. When this medi- 

 cine is not at hand some other emetic must be given. Ordinary table salt can be 

 always quickly procured, and from one teaspoonful to a tablespoonful, according 

 to the size of the dog, should be given in warm water. If the dose does not act 

 freely, repeat it in a few minutes, or, instead, give from five to twenty grains 

 of powderd ipecacuanha, or from one to three grains of tar emetic. Either of 

 these may be shaken dry on the tongue; the dog must be made to vomit some- 

 how, but anything like salt requiring a quantity of water is often difficult to 

 administer, as the dog's mouth is often tightly clenched and trying to open it 

 induces a paroysm, during which time it is impossible to give anything by the 

 mouth, and here the advantage of the subcutaneous injection of apomorphia 

 comes in. This may also be repeated in a quarter of an hour if the vomiting has 

 not been free. Besides the emetic some medicine is necessary to relieve the 

 spasms. For this there is nothing better than chloral and bromide of potassium. 

 From fifteen grains to two scruplee of each may be given in from one to three 

 tablespoonfuls of water if the dog can be made to swallow, and half the quantity 

 of each may be given again in twenty or thirty minutes and repeated, if neces- 

 sary, in half an hour. When the dog is unable to swallow, from three to ten 

 minims of nitrite of amyl held to the nose on a pocket handkerchief is useful. 

 This may be repeated in a quarter of an hour, or chloroform may be given. 

 Also inject into the rectum from one-half to two drams of laudanum, in from one 

 to four tablespoonfuls of water, which repeat in a quarter of an hour, and again 

 in another fifteen minutes if the paroxyisms continue. After the severe symp- 

 toms have passed and the dog is weak and prostrate, from one-half to two tea 

 spoonfuls of brandy added to some milk may be administered and repeated every 

 hour for a time," 



GROUND GLASS. The symptoms are bloody passages, great pain and dis- 

 tress, and vomiting of blood. There is no cure for this, and it is merciful to 

 destroy the poor animal at once, ending his suffering by chloroforming. 



I now conclude this article by giving one that was published in the Amer- 

 ican Stock-Ketper. 



"Phosphorous is a dangerous poison, and will be got from rat-paste which is 

 left lying about, spread on bread and butter. For this give an emetic, followed 

 by a draught of Magnesia and water. Afterwards milk and other demulcents, 

 with a few drops of laudanum to allay pain. Mercury may be taken in several 

 forms either as Calomel, "White Precipitate," or "Corrosive Sublimate" all of 

 which are accessible to dogs at various times. Give large draughts of white of 

 egg beaten up with water; an emetic first. Then diet on milk and broth. If 

 violent purging, give a little laudanum. Sulphate of copper is in common use 

 about farms, and so is dangerous to dogs, who may pick up and devour dead 

 birds in a corn field in which the seed has been dressed with this poison. Its 

 antidotes are demulcents (after the usual emetic), such as white of egg and milk, 



