CHAPTER VI. 



DISEASES ARISING FROM MISMANAGEMENT OR 

 NEGLECT. 



RICKETS. INDIGESTION. 



POVERTY OF BLOOD. 



When puppies are reared in densely populated parts of cities, or 

 even in the country where they are crowded together in large 

 numbers, they are weakly in constitution ; their blood is pale, from 

 being deprived of the red particles which fresh air and good food, 

 with sunlight, will alone produce. The feeding has a good deal to 

 do with this, but not so much as other causes. The signs are clear 

 enough, the young clog looking emaciated and delicate, and his 

 coat staring, while his lips and tongue are of a pale pink, as if 

 washed out. Worms are almost always present, and if so they ag- 

 gravate the disease tenfold. Give plenty of fresh air, in the coun- 

 tiy if possible, admitting the sun on all occasions. Administer 

 good nourishing food, composed of the proper proportion? of ani- 

 mal and vegetable ingredients. The following mixture of quinine 

 and steel may be used as an internal medicine: Sulphate of qui- 

 nine ; sulphate of iron, of each 1 grain ; extract of dandelion 3 

 grains. Mix, and give three times a day. If worms are present, 

 they must of course be got rid of. 



RICKETS AND ENLARGED JOINTS. 



By rickets is understood a soft and weak condition of the bones, 

 in which the lime is deficient ; the gelatine comprising their frame- 

 work having no proper support, they bend in any direction which 

 the superincumbent weight may give them. Hence we so often 

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