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and to effect a perma- 

 nent cure the treatment 

 must be very persistent. 

 " I do not know when 

 Siamese were first intro- 

 duced into England, but 

 Lady Dorothy Nevill 

 possessed some several 

 years ago. Sir Robert 

 Herbert imported some ; 



PUGS PAYING A VISIT TO 

 THE SIAMKSK. 



Purifier (about a tea- 

 spoonlul) should be 

 placed in boiling water, 

 and the cat or kitten 

 made to inhale the 

 steam several times 

 daily, and particularly 

 the first thing in the 

 morning and the last 

 at night. 



" For adults suffer- 

 ing from bad throat 

 complaint and total 

 refusal of all food I 

 have found no remedy 

 to equal the following 

 prescription, if given 



in time. I have administered it with great 

 success to numberless cats : Forty drops 

 Calvert's pure carbolic acid, two drachms 

 spirits of wine, six ounces pure water. Not 

 quite half a teaspoonful to be mixed with 

 a teaspoonful of warm milk, poured down 

 the throat three times daily ; for very young 

 cats a smaller quantity of the mixture should 

 be given. I doubt if it would be advisable to 

 give it to young kittens. Even if the cat does 

 not swallow the whole dose, it acts beneficially 

 as a mouth-wash and disinfectant, apparently 

 removing an unpleasant taste and re-establish- 

 ing the power to smell the loss of this sense 

 often preventing a sick cat from eating. Weak 

 eyes, sickness, and diarrhoea are tedious ail- 

 ments to which all kittens are very subject, 



MRS. HAWKINS CATTKRY. 



and Miss Forestier-Walker and her sister (Mrs. 

 Vyvyan), who have owned and bred many 

 beautiful specimens, first made acquaintance 

 with this breed in 1883, and soon afterwards 

 were presented with ' Susan ' and ' Samuel ' 

 direct from the palace at Bangkok. 'Tiam-o- 

 Shian I.' also came from Bangkok. All these 

 cats had kinked tails. From 'Susan' and 

 ' Tiam - o - Shian I.' mated with Mrs. Lee's 

 ' Meo,' Mr. Harrington's ' Medu,' and Miss 

 Moore's ' Siam ' descended, amongst others, 

 the following well-known and typical cats : 

 ' Bangkok," Tiam-o-Shian II.,' ' Goblin, "Kitza 

 Kara,' 'Queen Rhea,' ' King Wallypug,' ' Prince 

 of Siam,' ' Tiam-o-Shian III.,' 'Adam,' 'Eve,' 

 'Cupid,' 'Mafeking,' ' Rangsit,' 'Vishuddha,' 

 ' Tiam-o-Shian IV.,' ' Suzanne,' ' Ah Choo,' 



