334 DISEASES OF DOGS. 



RECIPE (No. 9). 



Distemper Pills. 



Take — Quinine, one ounce; 



Powdered quassia, one ounce ; 

 Extract of gentian, three ounces. 



Give five, ten, or twenty grains for a dose, according to the size of 

 the dog. Three pills to be given daily. 



At the same time there should be administered the annexed drops. 

 Liquor arsenicalis, twenty-four drops ; 

 Simple syrup, three ounces. 



One to two or three teaspoonfuls constitute the dose for different 

 dogs. 



This treatment should be persevered in, for dis- 

 temper approaches nearer to continued fever in the 

 human being than any other disease to which the dog 

 is subject. By a steady adoption of the above treat- 

 ment, many of those symptoms which are aggrava- 

 tions induced by mistaken measures will be avoided. 

 While, however, pursuing this treatment, the food 

 should be nutritive, but not too abundant. A suffi- 

 ciency, nevertheless, should be allowed, only no coax- 

 ing, no tempting to eat should be indulged. 



If the case be not taken in time, but the fits should 

 appear, the treatment is all but hopeless. However, 

 then make some of the strongest possible jelly, and 

 when sufficiently warm to be barely liquid, to every 

 ounce of this add a teaspoon ful of sulphuric ether. 

 Force that upon a middling-sized dog every hour, 

 increasing or diminishing the quantity according to 

 the magnitude of the animal. 



Should purgation start up, the subjoined mixture 

 may be given after every discharge : — 



