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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



which will entice dogs to eat when nothing else 

 may. 



Well, we have Keen and Robinson's patent 

 barlcv, which should always be used in the sick- 

 room and for convalescence ; dogs like it, too. 



New-laid eggs are invaluable as invalid diet, 

 so is nice clean tripe, stewed rabbit with the 

 meat minced, nicely cooked fish, sweetbreads 

 grilled, or rabbits' and chickens' liver cooked in 

 the same way. 



Milk is a standard sick diet, but it mu_-.t be 

 fresh from the cow. Goat's milk is excellent for 

 dogs. 



Tea, if a dog will lap it, is very refreshing, 

 and chocolates nearly all dogs are fond of. No 

 medicine cupboard would be complete w-ithout 

 Bovril, which is one of the greatest inventions 

 of the age. Other beef-teas are merely stimu- 

 lants, this is a food. 



A jar of Virol is not to be forgotten. During 

 convalescence nothing picks a dog up so soon, 

 and it is, moreover, just the thing for the coat. 



Have every drug or medicine carefully kept in 

 bottles or jars, and all labelled with minimum 

 and maximum dose, which must accord with the 

 animal's strength and w^eight. 



Xo cupboard is complete without the following 

 articles : A clinical thermometer, a catheter or 

 two (learn how to use them), scale and weights, 

 postal and mortar, mmim gla.sses and glass rod, 

 a spatula; roller bandages suitable in width, say 

 from I to 2>'2 inches; a packet of boric lint, ditto 

 of cotton wool, some oiled paper, tow, scissors, 

 safety pins, glass tubes containing sterilised 

 needles and ligatures in case you want to sew a 

 wound; carbolic acid lotion. Friar's balsam, 

 carron oil for burns, strong solution of perman- 

 ganate of potash — all in square glass stoppered 

 bottles; a pot of Zam-Buk, a pot of zinc ointment, 

 and one of vaseline. 



The castor-oil and syrup of buckthorn aperient 

 should be kept handy. It is two parts of the 

 former to one of the latter. 



.A pet dog of mine bids me remind my readers 

 that there is no better medicine in the world for 

 the canine race than the green blades of the 

 common couch grass. In large doses it is an 

 emetic, in smaller a laxative, and in still smaller 

 it is a blood purifier or anti-scorbutic. In a word, 

 it is the dog's panacea. He prefers to help him- 

 self to it, especially early in the morning, but it 

 may be culled for him and brought home. 



A CANINE TURN-OUT. 

 (i>> comtcsy of ■' Our Dd^s.") 



