SIMPLE RECIPES FOR CANINE ILLS. 537 



to the hocks, and remove all over what will reach to the middle of the joint of 

 the hock. Turn back the hair as well as possible, lay the tail on the block, take a 

 sharp chisel and mallet, and cut it diagonally. Should bleeding not cease in due 

 time_, apply a httle muriate tincture of iron, or Monsel's salt. 



Ltmbit. — Bo-w-Legs. — Bow-legged dogs are sometimes cured by putting the 

 legs in splints. 



Weak Limbs. — Bow-legs and weak limbs in puppies are caused by deficient nu- 

 triment while nursing, or by a filthy kennel. Keep the kennel dry and clean, rub 

 the loins twice a day with some simple liniment, and give a tablespoonful of cod- 

 liver oil night and morning. 



Strains and Spraifis.—»£.st the dog, and rub the limb with Pond's Extract ; 

 if the swelling is not reduced in a few days, paint it with iodine. The following 

 is an efficacious liniment; 



Camphorated sweet oil, 2 ounces ; liquor ammonia, i ounce ; oil of origanum 

 (pure), 2 drachms. Mix, shake well, and apply with friction. 



Rkeumatistn, — Stonehenge recommends the following somewhat empirical 

 remedy as the most reliable he knows : Score a red herring with a knife, and well 

 rub m two drachms of nitre ; give every morning on an empty stomach, and keep 

 the dog without food for two hours after. At night give a drachm of camphor 

 ■ made in a ball. If the dog will not eat the herring, it maj^ be mixed with broth. 

 Another remedy is carbonate of ammonia, three to five grains, to be given two or 

 three times daily. Hand-rubbing and an embrocation of turpentine and ammonia 

 will be found beneficial.. 



Broken Z«-.— Roll bandages five yards long, thickly sprinkled with dryplaster- 

 of-Paris, and roll into cylinders. Then wet a few inches at a time, and apply 

 layer over layer to the leg, plaster being liberally sprinkled over between each 

 layer. Repeat, until a Solid wall of plaster of over an inch in thickness encases 

 the leg, and confine the animal securely until the plaster thoroughly sets and 

 hardens, when it can be released and allowed the freedom of a small pen. In a 

 week or so the creature will be able to hobble about the yard, and appear in a fair 

 way to recover. 



Irorw**.— Round Worms, Thread Worms, and Tape Worms are intestinal par- 

 asites common with dogs. 



Round Worms. — These are white-worms two-fifths of an inch in length. 

 Symptoms : griping pains, worms vomited, or eliminated with or without the 

 'fseceSj acrid eructations, slimy stools, and inflammation of the bowels, variable 

 appetite, a short hacking couch, heat and itching near the root of the tail, dizzi- 

 ness, snapping at twigs, grmd mg of the teeth while napping, and a wasting away 

 of the body. 



Treatment for Puppies : If just weaned and will lap milk, give one grain of 

 santoninein milk for two or three days, fasting ; if older, one grain ot santonine 

 for three days, followed by a tablespoonful of castor oil. Or, a piece of garlic 

 two or three ti mes a day for several days, or three doses of five grains each of areca 

 nut two hours apart, to be followed by a tablespoonful of castor oil. Or, three 

 times a day a pill of one gram of sulphate of quinine, one grain of sulphate of 

 iron, and three grains extract of dandelion. 



Treatment for Grown Dogs : Administer, on an empty stomach, two grains of 

 areca nut for each pound the dog weighs, followed in a few hours by a dose of 

 castor oil. Or, a powder compounded in the proportion of fifteen to twenty 

 grains santonine, six grains quinine sulphate, one grain aloin; mix intimately, 

 divide into three powders, and administer three times a day on three alternate 

 days. On the morning of the day wrhen no powders are given, the dog is to have 

 a dose composed of best salad oil, two ounces : oil of turpentine, two drachms ; 

 oil of cinnamon, one grain ; dose, three-quarters to one and a half teaspoonfuls. 



Thread Worms.— %Yas.^\.ovas : Intolerable itching near the root of the tail, con- 

 stant restlessness, etc. 



Treatment : Injection of powdered white Castile scap, thirty grains, dissolved 

 in one quart of tepid rain water, and physic with a dose of aloes. 



Mem. — Cutting of tips of tails will not prevent worms. 



IVrpe-Worwi.— After a dose of castor oil, give ten to twenty grains of koosin, 

 after a light meal. This should be followed by an emulsion composed of mucilage 

 gum acacia, two ounces, and laudanum, one drachm; a tablespoonful, or less. 

 Arrowroot gruel, barley water, rice gruel,and elm tea,are also excellent demulcents. 



Dyaentery.—G'wQ small doses of castor oil, and inject into the bowels, after 

 each evacuation, ten drops of tincture of opium m a spoonful of starch water. Do 

 not feed meat, and let the diet be simple for a while. 



