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can be repeated every two, three, or four hours, 

 according to the continued severity or the sub- 

 sidence of the symptoms. In chronic cases, 

 also, which tend to debilitate the animal, a half- 

 teaspoonf ul dose of brandy can be added to the 

 other treatment. 



In jaundice the calomel must be used in one- 

 tenth or one-tAvelfth grain doses, with a few 

 grains of saccharated pepsin, given once every 

 hour for a period of twelve or eighteen hours, 

 and then followed by a full dose of castor-oil, 

 or, perhaps preferably, by a purgative dose of 

 sulphate of soda (thirty grains to one table- 

 spoonful of water). Then for a day or two keep 

 the animal on a moderate diet of milk, with a 

 half-teaspoonf ul of bicarbonate of soda in each 

 saucer of water ; and at the end of that time the 

 calomel can be repeated in the same doses, at 

 an hour's interval each, for eight or ten hours. 



CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 

 Distemper. 



Distemper is a contagious and infectious 

 fever of the cat, complicated by inflammations 



