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DISEASES OF DOGS. 



Generally speaking, the first thing to be attended 

 to, in the cure of all the diseases to which the dog 

 is subject, is the state of the stomach j and in a 

 naturally healthy animal, provided that important 

 organ be kept in proper order, nature will prove 

 the best physician. 



Clean beds, well ventilated, and, at the same 

 time, warm sleeping places, good water, and good 

 food, of the plainest description, are preventives of 

 disease ; whilst a deficiency of any of the essen- 

 tials just enumerated is sure to bring with it a 

 number of e^ils. Dogs will become costive if they 

 are kept in confinement ; and as it is sometimes 

 inconvenient to let them have a proper allowance 

 of exercise, under such circumstances a tea- 

 spoonful of flowers of sulphur, or any other mild 

 pm-gative, given occasionally, will be beneficial; 

 it will make them fine in their coats, and coun- 

 teract any tendency to mange. 



