66 THE sportsman's vade mecum. 



much consequence provided you take care to keep it well in 

 hand. Opium must be used with great caution ; it rather 

 tends to epileptic fits, which, by the way, we consider to 

 result from an almost stoppage of the bowels. Compound 

 Powder of Chalk, Quinine Mixture, Rhubard, Catechu, will 

 generally be sufficient. 



In the Field Sports is the following receipt, and as we 

 have invariably found Blaine and Youatt's horse and dog 

 receipts the most reliable, we quote it. It is new to us, and 

 so is a violent case of diarrhoea, for that matter. 



^ Magnesia, one drachm ; powdered Alum, two scruples; 

 Powdered Calumba,* one drachm ; P. Gum Arabic, two 

 drachms. Mix with six ounces boiled starch, and give a 

 dessert or table spoonful every four or six hours, pro re nat&. 



We will now suppose a case, for our practice of late years 

 has been confined to young puppies. Ears and feet cold ; 

 body and head very hot ; body hard and distended ; nose 

 hard, dry, and almost stopped up with thick matter ; dry, 

 husky cough ; faeces, hard ; pulse rapid, evidencing much 

 fever. Give instantly, Calomel and Tartar Emetic, half a 

 grain each, repeating it vnth intermissions of an hour, till 

 you get a vomit. One hour after, give wine glass No. two. 

 Twelve hours after, if fever has not abated, give three grains 

 Calomel, followed in three hours by wine glass of No. two. 

 If the next day you find any fever still lingering, give Oalo- 



• Catechu, one drachm, will be better than the Calumba. 'dt ia fai 

 more efBcacious. — Dinks. 



