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Remedy. Keep the dog on a good but spare 

 diet; milk and bread is excellent in this case. Give 

 him a purgative of jalap and calomel. Make a wash 

 of a weak solution of sugar of lead, or sulphate of 

 zyic, and use it as eye-water. 



Dogs in more advanced life often have blear-eyes : 

 to cure this, use a little vinous tincture of opium, 

 or weak brandy and water; either is a good wash for 

 eyes so effected. Or, you may use, as a very good 

 wash, one dram of white vitriol dissolved in ten or 

 twelve ounces of water, that is, between half a pint 

 and three quarters, the pint of water weighing six- 

 teen ounces. 



AIR AND EXERCISE. 



ACTING upon the old maxim, that "prevention is 

 better than cure," we will recommend all persons 

 who keep dogs, to observe the following rules, and 

 they will soon find their advantage in the health and 

 good condition of the animals. 



Allow your dog to take good exercise. 



Keep his house or kennel very clean and well 

 ventilated, and change his bed often. 



Give him a proper proportion of animal and vege- 

 table food. 



Give a little opening medicine whenever costive, 

 and also at spring and autumn, and whenever 

 his digestive faculties seem out of order. 



Above all, keep the dog himself clean, and teach 

 him habits of cleanliness, for 



CLEANLINESS is the surest preserver of HEALTH. 



