BOOK II. 



DRUGS COMMONLY USED FOR THE DISEASES 



OF DOGS, 

 AND THEIR MODES OF ADMINISTRATION. 



[It is to be constantly borne in mind that the doses given below are those suited to the dog 

 of average size and strength. Where, therefore, the patient is a toy dog, the dose 

 must be reduced to one-third or even one-fourth of that given. The same rule 

 applies to puppies.'] 



CHAPTER I. 



THE ACTION OF MEDICINES, AND THE FORMS IN WHICH 

 THEY ARE GENERALLY PRESCRIBED. 



ALTEEATIVES. 



LTEEATIVES are intended to produce a fresh and healthy action, 

 instead of the previous disordered function. The precise mode of 

 action is not well understood, and it is only by the results that the 

 utility of these medicines is recognised. 



1. JUthiops mineral, 2 to 5 grains ; powdered ginger, ^ to 1 grain ; 

 powdered rhubarb, 1 to 3 grains. Mix, and form into a pill with syrup, to be given 

 every evening. 



2. Plummer's pill, 2 to 5 grains ; extract of hemlock, 2 to 3 grains. Mix, and 

 give every night. 



3. Stinking hellebore, 5 to 8 grains ; powdered rhubarb, 2 to 4 grains. Mix, 

 and form into a pill, to be given every night. 



4. Liquor Arsenicalis of which the dose is 7 drops to an average sized dog 

 this is specially serviceable to dogs rendered gross by over feeding and no work. 



5. Podophyllin, f grain ; compound rhubarb pill, 3 grains. Mix, and give once 

 or twice a week until the liver acts freely. 



6. Cod liver oil, from a teaspoonful to a table spoonful, with one or two drops of 

 wine of iron twice a day. 



