6& HUNTING DIRECTORY. 



Treatment of 



castor oil. The dog should be immersed for twenty 

 minutes in a warm bath, rubbed dry, and placed in clean 

 warm straw ; the temperature of his apartment should 

 be moderately warm, taking great care to exclude the 

 cold air, which must necessarily irritate the lungs. — 

 Having continued this plan for forty-eight hours, a mix- 

 ture, consisting of nitre, fox-glove, and ipecacuanha, 

 should be given three or four times a day until the urgent 

 symptoms have subsided. Stimulants should never be 

 given but when the animal appears much exhausted, and 

 after the preceding measures have been adopted : a little 

 white wine might then be put into the gruel, which 

 should constitute his food from the primary attack. 

 When recovering, little more than bread-and-milk or 

 nourishing broths will be necessary. 



'* It occasionally happens that the irritability of the 

 stomach is such that no medicines can be retained. In- 

 jections in these cases havebeen attended with beneficial 

 effects ; and therefore a solution of starch with laudanum 

 should be thrown up several times in the course of twenty- 

 four hours : a blister also should be applied to the region 

 of the stomach. 



"With regard to the treatment of the second and 

 third stages, when the first has been violent and neglect- 

 ed, very little can be expected from medicine. Bleeding 

 would be highly injurious; and calomel, opium, and 

 antimony, combined with expectorants, would most pro- 

 bably offer the greatest prospect of success. Strength 

 should be carefidly supported by a nutritious diet, but 

 all strong cordials ought to be avoided. 



