KENNEL DISEASES. 
PART FIRST. 
THE SICK-QUARTERS: 
THEIR GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 
CHAPTER I. 
PRACTICAL HINTS ON NURSING. 
Ir is safe to assert that in a very large proportion of attacks of acute 
diseases, also in not a few chronic cases, the recovery of dogs depends far 
more upon the nursing which they receive than upon the judicious selection and 
use of medicines. 
Considering the primary essentials, it is important that the room in which 
the patient is confined be clean, well ventilated, and of the right temperature. 
If his disease is infectious and he has mates, manifestly he should be taken 
from them and carefully isolated. As a rule, also, unless the sanitary condition 
of the kennels is well-nigh perfect, dogs ought not to remain in them while ill, 
but, instead, shculd be removed to other quarters that are above suspicion, and 
to rooms in the homes of their masters when possible, for at such times they 
sorely miss companionship and frequent expressions of concern. 
Those who assume the duty of nursing should be firm, gentle, and patient ; 
and these qualities invariably exhibited, obedience can generally be easily en- 
forced. Whereas roughness, which is often displayed, especially when medicines 
of very unpleasant taste are being given, has a serious effect on sensitive ani- 
mals. In truth, ministrations to them should be as gentle and persuasive as to 
members of the human family under like conditions, for tender solicitude, care- 
ful consideration, and a light touch are quite as grateful to a sick dog; while 
under harsh words and from coarse contact he as instinctively shrinks as his 
master or mistress must do when ill. 
