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part ; it rather seems to reside in tliose portions of the 

 body which are well covered with hair. 



For this form of disease the cure begins with tonic 

 medicine ; and after this has been administered a week 

 or a fortnight, as the strength may appear to req^uire 

 restoration, it is suddenly left off; and liquor arsenicalis 

 in gradually increasing doses is administered. If it be a 

 little dog, let the first day's dose consist of half-a-drop 

 each time ; and if for a large animal, of two drops each 

 dose ; three doses in either case to be given in the course 

 of the day. In the former case, the quantity of arseni- 

 calis is to be increased half-a-drop each day, and in the 

 latter instance one drop daily is to be the advance ; the 

 quantity in both cases to be distributed over three doses, 

 one to be given in the morning, one at noon, and the last 

 at night. 



The medicine is to be kept on increasing each day, 

 until the dog loathes his food ; has a running from the 

 eyes ; a scarlet conjunctiva ; or exhibits some symptom 

 that denotes the physic has hold of his system ; when the 

 arsenicalis is to be discontinued for three days, and then 

 steadily persevered with at the dose which preceded the 

 derangement. Thus, supposing it requires three and a 

 half drops to throw the small dog off his appetite, the 

 quantity to resume with will in that case be three drops. 



There is no power I possess which can predicate the 

 quantity of the liquor arsenicalis which an animal will 

 bear ; its effects on different creatures of the same species 

 are so various, that what one can gorge with impunity 



