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"In distemper, the feces are usually of a greenifeh, rank, pungent character, 

 indicating a decidedly unhealthy condition of the bowels, in the cause of which 

 both stomach indigestion and intestinal indigestion /and lack of assimilation un- 

 doubtedly share. This condition, if allowed to rem/ain without attention results 

 in what is known as the ulcerous and intestinal form of the disease which com- 

 monly develops when owners are too anxious to keep their dogs eating rich food, 

 when the dog's system cannot properly handle it. There is no necessity for this 

 form of the disease ever developing. It is its worst form when advanced, and re- 

 sults in most cases fatally. 



"These simple and harmless tablets will first digest the food and enable the dog 

 to assimilate it. They soothe and tone up the inflamed intestinal conditions and 

 gradually make a dog's appetite good again and slowly but surely bring about the 

 conditions which permit healthy, well formed feces. When this is accomplished 

 more than half the battle is fought, fqr as long as the dog is running off in a 

 <i inn-heal condition the distemper germ seems to thrive, producing all sorts of 

 gastrical and intestinal troubles, which are difficult to cure. Many make the mis- 

 tuki- of treating with stringents for diarrhea, which naturally only cause more 

 harm, as the cause is not first removed. There need be no fear whatever in the 

 moderate use of these cablets, for they can produce no harmful effects whatever, and 

 even should they be given without sufficient cause therefor existing, they would be 

 but a tonic and help to any normal conditions. All dogs (especially puppies) are 

 prone to overeat, bolt their food and tax too greatly their digestive organs. Dogs 

 in their tramp and native state have no such troubles. While our modern blooded 

 breeding has given us unbroken lineage in fine pedigrees, the dog constitution, 

 due perhaps to the confined kennel life most have to put up with, is not as vigo- 

 rous as it would otherwise be. Many a stud dog and brood bitch hardly ever get 

 out ol ;i kennel yard: need it be wondered at, then, that the blue- blooded puppies 

 iniu iit digestive organs that need some help now and then, and are susceptible 

 subjects OL contagion which develops at most shows? Fresh air and nice quarters 

 tend to produce a healthy environment in a kennel, but as the young puppie adds 

 bone and tissue much faster than is generally considered, the organs that are re- 

 sponsible for this growth, great in proportion to size as it is, and speedy develop- 

 ment, need as much general support as it is possible to give them. 



If your patient is well advanced in the purulent mucus discharge or acute 

 bronchial stage, before you get at him, which is usual in the experience of 

 amateurs, begin at once and conform rigidly to treat as heretofore suggested, 

 adding the possible help of some distemper medicine. While these undoubtedly 

 when properly used are very helpful, they are at best but stimulating tonics and 

 fever medicines, and it is well to have on hand whichever one you find gives 

 HOO.I results. Should the patient show general debility and indications of the 

 disease rather generally poisoning the system in fact, if the nasal form develops, 

 lose no time in arranging to put in a seton. Any veterinary can do it, but you 

 can do it yourself fully as well, as follows: Clip the hair on neck back of skull 

 close to skin for three or four inches square. Secure a piece of ordinary (tarred) 

 tarpaulin or common hemp cord, which should be soaked in a solution of carbolic 

 acid and water. Cut cord at length of eight or ten inches. Catch one end of it 

 iu the joint of a pair of small curved sharp-pointed nail scissors or sail-cloth 

 ueeule; hold skin just below occiput of skull bone, well up away from inner 

 tissues and puncture point through from one side of neck to the other, drawing 

 cord through so that holes will be about two inches apart; tie good large knots 

 in each end of cord, dressing at first with antiseptic vaseline, and leave it in for 



