6 Sporting Notes in the Far East. 



When a dog has once developed the latter affliction, the case 

 is more or less hopeless and most distressing for the owner. He 

 (the master) probably looks upon his " tyke " almost in the light 

 of a mess-mate, or perhaps in some cases, as a tie from the " Old 

 Place at Home," he sees the poor beast dying by inches before 

 his eyes and he can do nothing to relieve its sufferings, till death 

 himself intervenes. 



Again the same disease will sometimes act in quite a different 

 form ; dogs apparently in full health will suddenly drop down dead 

 in their tracks ; and on a post-mortem examination their hearts 

 will be found perforated with a number of white worms some of 

 which will reach to the length of nine inches. 



I have also heard the origin of this affliction put down to feed- 

 ing on bad rice ; it may be so ; all I can say is that I have never 

 yet met the individual who could tell the exact cause of the disease 

 and then cure it. However here is a recipe given me by a 

 European sportsman in Nagasaki Japan and it must be taken for 

 what it is worth. It consists in administering to the dog immed- 

 iately on his return from shooting, seven drops of liquor arsenicalis, 

 in a cup of milk, or any liquid that he will readily drink, the dose 

 to be repeated on the following two days. 



Dogs also suffer from deafness (especially up the Yang-se-Kiang) 

 arising from the seeds of certain grasses working their way into 

 the ears. 



