CHAPTER II 



THE REMEDIES SUITED TO THE DOG, AND THE BEST 

 MEANS OF ADMINISTERING THEM. 



ALTERATIVES. ANODYNES. ANTISPASMODICS. APERIENTS. ASTRIN- 

 GENTS. BLISTERS. CAUSTICS. CHARGES. CORDIALS. DIURETICS. 

 EMBROCATIONS. EMETICS. EXPECTORANTS. FEVER MEDICINES. 

 CLYSTERS. LOTIONS. OINTMENTS. STOMACHICS. STYPTICS. TON- 

 ICS. WORM MEDICINES. ADMINISTRATION OF REMEDIES. 



ALTERATIVES. 



These are medicines which are given with a view of changing 

 an unhealthy into a healthy action. We know nothing of the 

 mode in which the change is produced, and we can only judge of 

 them by the results. The most powerful are mercury, iodine, 

 hemlock, hellebore, and cod-liver oil, which are given in the fol- 

 lowing formulas : 



1. ^Ethiop's mineral, H to 5 grains. 

 Powdered rhubarb, 1 to 4 grains. 



" ginger, i to 1 grain. 

 Mix and make into a pill, to be given every evening. 



2. Hemlock extract, or fresh-bruised leaves, 2 to 4 grains. 



Plummer's pill, li to 5 grains. 

 Mix, and give every night, or every otber night. 



3. Iodide of potassium, 2 to 4 grains. 



Liquid extract of sarsaparilla, 1 drachm. 

 Mix, and give in a little water, once or twice a day. 



4. Stinking hellebore, 5 to 10 grains. 



Powdered jalap, 2 to 4 grains. 

 Mix into a bolus, and give every otber night. 



5. Cod-liver oil, from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful. 

 To be given twice a day. 



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