100 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



of indifference. The medicine must be given in small doses 

 three or four times a day, without, however, carrying it to 

 purging. As soon as that supervenes, the dose must be 

 decreased, and stopped altogether for a time, if the purging 

 is violent. The dose is from five to ten centigrammes, to 

 be made up in pills, given from two to four times a day. 

 This is to be continued for a few days, if purging does not 

 set in ; if, on the other hand, purging occurs, the dose must 

 be reduced or suspended altogether, until it has stopped. 



" ' The administration of the calomel in the form of pills 

 is preferable, as the agent is insoluble in water, and the 

 suspension in other liquids is at best unsatisfactory and 

 uncertain ; enemas, slightly charged with laudanum are to 

 be given in accordance with the indications. If the dog is 

 able to eat, he is to be allowed food, avoiding all salted 

 substances. After four or five days of the administration 

 of the medicine, an abundant salivation sets in, but I 

 have not had this followed by inflammation of the stomach 

 or gangrene of the mouth ; in some cases, however, there is 

 loosening of the teeth ; this was the case particularly with 

 a young terrier, which had taken the calomel for five days, 

 in doses of five centigrammes three times a day. The 

 animal lost five teeth, but recovered of the jaundice. The 

 medicine may be given for the first four days at the rate of 

 three pills a day, two on the fifth day, afterwards reduced 

 to one, and discontinued altogether when the state of the 

 patient admits of it' 



" The author gives several cases of jaundice in the dog 

 successfully treated, but which would take up too much 

 space." — Recueil de MMecine Veterinaire. 



For the following translation I am indebted to Mr. 

 Fleming : — 



JAUNDICE, OR ICTERUS, IN THE DOG. 

 "Trasbot {Archives Veierinaires, 1876), in a very able 

 paper on this malady, when alluding to its 'pathological 



