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and safer to use than anything the owner can 

 have prepared. Your druggist will get this 

 remedy for you if you insist upon his doing so. 

 By keeping the puppy free from worms, the 

 owner will go far toward warding off danger 

 from distemper. This disease is peculiar to 

 puppyhood, just as measles, whooping cough 

 and mumps are peculiar to childhood. It gen- 

 erally appears during or right after teething, 

 and is the particular terror of all kennelmen. 

 Although dog owners and sportsmen are, as a 

 rule, a most intelligent class of men, there has 

 been displayed over this disease a most unpar- 

 donable amount of ignorance. Nothing is 

 gained by attempting to avoid this disease. 

 Dogs will get it in spite of all precautions, and 

 the only proper course to pursue in the light 

 of modern science is to approach it intelligently. 

 Some of the theories advanced as to the cause 

 of this disease, as well as the rules laid down 

 for treatment, are absolutely absurd. Prac- 

 tically, the entire materia incdica have at some 

 time or other been recommended as positive 

 cures, as well as such barbaric practices as 

 worming the tail or tongue, the insertion of 

 setons and other inhuman practices. Men who 

 go about advocating such operations, as well as 

 dosing with drugs whose action they do not 

 understand, for diseases whose causes they 

 know nothing about, should be treated by their 



