SIMPLE RECIPES FOR CANINE ILLS, 539 



ment : Give a tonic composed of sulphate of zinc, three grs.: extract of gentian 

 three ^rs.; mix, and form a pill to be given three times a day. ' 



JSptiepsj/.— Evacuate the bowels, keep them lax, and place on low nutritious 

 diet, with plenty of air and exercise. Give a teaspoonful of Boudault's wine of 

 pepsin three times a day. It is a very common thing for young dogs when first 

 taken into the field to have epileptic fits, and, unless they arise from confirmed 

 epilepsy, the dog generally outgrows them. As the disease arises from a ereat 

 variety of causes, no definite treatment can be assigned. Epilepsy proper Is in- 

 curable, as a rule. •- ■/ f r 



Tarnside — This disease is very rare. It is an inflammation of one side of the 

 brain only. Put a seton on the neck and give nitrate of silver, say two grs care- 

 fully powdered and mixed witb crumbs of bread enough to make ei^ht 'pills • 

 give three pills a day, first giving a purgative. ' 



Distemper.— In early stages of this disease a Dover's powder night and 

 morning, with careful nursing and warmth, often effect a cure: so will literal 

 doses of common table-salt ; and also a common, dried, red pepper pod used as a 

 pill, smoking the nose with burnt tar and feathers to stimulate discharge. Young 

 puppies are frequently treated with one drop of Donovan's solution in water 

 three times a day. Also one-half grain quinine, one-quarter grain leptajidrin 

 every four hours. Stimulating diet ; beef essence, or wine of iron and beef etc 



There is no "recipe" for distemper or fits any more than there is for typhoid 

 fever m maji. Distemper i a form of disease which requires systematic treat- 

 ment in accordance with symptoms as they develop. 



The most common of these symptoms are cough, difficult breathing, dullness, 

 loss of appetite, fever, nervous shiverings, eyes bloodshot and stuck together 

 with a glutinous discharge, expectoration of yellowish mucus, ulcers on the lips 

 emaciation, foetid breath, and diarrhoea. The following treatment is rec^ 

 ommended : Commence with calomel, giving the dog at first 20 grains in a 

 dry powder on the back of the tongue. Give also 10 grains of quinine in two 

 pills each day. If the calomel moves him too freely, administer an enema of fif- 

 teen drops tincture of opium, and two ounces of starch-water. Administer beef 

 tea, by injection if necessary. 



Debility after Distemper.— ¥q&A beef or mutton broth with vegetables, and 

 give every day a wine-glassful of cod-liver oil with two or three drops of wine of 

 iron in it. 



Partial Paralysis after Distemper. — Quinine is probably the best remedy, 

 with, perhaps, the addition of a small quantity of nux vomica ; say a pill con- 

 taining two grains quinine and one-eighth grain nux vomica, given three times a 

 day for a couple of weeks. 



Shaking Palsy. — An aperient first, and tonics afterward, with plenty of exercise 

 and fresh air and a liberal diet. 



Sickness from Riding. — Give the dog as much wagon riding as possible before 

 feeding, and he will soon become accustomed to the motion, and cease to be 

 affected by it. 



Bydrophohia. — For this disease there seems yet to be no positive cure. 

 Symptoms resembling those of rabies emanate from a very great variety of 

 causes, some of which are very simple ; so that hydrophobia actually exists in 

 but a very limited number of cases where it is suspected. Hence careful diag- 

 nosis is always imperative. 

 Mem.— Dogs run mad in winter in proportion of three to one in summer. 

 Canker of the Ear,— Wash the ears thoroughly, and after drying, pour in 

 them a little of the following : Goulard's extract, one-half oz. ; wine of opium, 

 one-half oz. ; sulphate of zinc, one-half drachm ; water, eight ozs, ; mix. Fit a 

 cap to the head to prevent shaking of the external flaps. The internal ear should 

 be kept clean by syringing it with warm water, and a weak solution of lead water 

 poured into the ear twice aday. Or, pulverize two ounces of alum in a pint of good 

 whisky, and bathe the parts thoroughly twice a day. 



Sore Ears.— Caused by scratches or wounds, and aggravated by neglect and 

 unclean liness, should be washed with Castile soap and warm water, and then 

 touched lightly with caustic ; then wash with a strong solution of carbolic ; and, 

 after having dried the parts, apply a lint soaked in carbolic ; cover with a dry piece, 

 and confine the whole by collodion, sealing' it to the ear around the edges. At the 

 end of twenty-four hours repeat the dressing. A cap should be worn to confine 

 the ears. Where the ulcers are malignant, apply a solution of 10 grs. of chromic 

 or glacial acetic acid to one ounce of water daily, until the foul portions are eateq 

 away ; then dress as above. 



