DOGS. 43 



TICKS. 



CLEANLINESS is the best and only preventive to these 

 troublesome vermin, and the dogs most infested with 

 them, are those which are most neglected. They 

 may be got rid of by the following wash, but it is 

 only by great attention to cleanliness that their 

 reproduction can be prevented, or kept in check: 



WASH, Water, - - two pints; 

 Spirits of wine, one ounce; 

 Sublimate - one dram and a half; 



The sublimate should be dissolved in the spirits of 

 wine, and the water then added. In using it, morn- 

 ing and evening, the hair of the dog should be well 

 parted, that it may penetrate to the skin. 



ASTHMA IN DOGS. 



THIS disease, in dogs, is very similar to that 

 which attacks the human being, and is usually 

 caused by an accumulation of fat about the heart, 

 the consequence of over feeding, or by a frequent 

 distension of the stomach by food, so that its capa- 

 city increases, and a morbid or depraved appetite is 

 the result. 



Symptoms. Difficulty of breathing, exhibited in 

 a shortness of breath, and short husky cough; the 

 stomach is unduly distended and a bulkiness of body 

 thereby engendered, distressing to the free move- 

 ments of the animal. 



Remedy. As this disease originates from reple- 

 tion, so abstinence, judiciously regulated, is the best 

 and indeed the only cure; its food should be lessened 

 in quantity, and be more pure and easily digested 



