DOGS. 



washing-, they should be rubbed dry with a hard 

 cloth, and their hair combed or brushed. Very 

 delicate dogs may be washed in warmer water, and 

 dried before the tire. 



The diseases of dogs are not numerous, although 

 of late it appears very much the fashion to display a 

 long catalogue, enumerated under distinct names; 

 but which, in reality, are not distinct diseases, but 

 only stages of the same complaint: for instance, a 

 cold, catarrh, diarrhoea, constipation, cough, and low 

 fever, are not separate complaints, but all indications 

 of what is usually termed A COLD; and merely 

 expressive of the several stages or accompaniments 

 of that cold: a dog is exposed to the cold and damp, 

 and his health becomes affected: his bowels are out 

 of order, either by looseness or too confined; the 

 looseness is described by the term diarrhoea, the con- 

 fined state of the bowels by the word constipation, 

 and the eyes and nose affected by watery runnings, 

 is called catarrh: still the disease itself is a cold, 

 of which a cough and low fever are usually the 

 accompaniments; and the remedial treatment of the 

 cold is necessarily different according to the peculiar 

 symptoms or accompaniments of that complaint. 



To ADMINISTER MEDICINE TO DOGS. Place the 

 dog in an erect position between your knees, with his 

 back inwards: secure his fore legs by a cloth or 

 handkerchief brought from behind. Press the upper 

 lip with the thumb and fingers of one hand, which 

 will compel him to open his mouth, and then with 

 the other hand pass the medicine beyond the tongue 

 into the gullet: withdraw your hand quickly, and 

 shut his mouth, keeping his head in the same erect 

 position till the medicine is swallowed. 



