332 KENNEL DISEASES. 
old, a perfectly safe dose is eight drops; and the general rule may properly be 
to administer one such dose every morning for three or four days. One dose 
daily being the method employed, for fox-terriers and the like the suitable 
quantity would be about four drops, and for toys, two drops. But were only 
one dose to be given —not to be repeated on the following day —it might be 
nearly twice as large. 
Increasing the dose with the age, for a puppy of medium or largest size 
breed, two months old, twelve drops would be right; eighteen drops for one 
three months; and twenty-seven drops after the fourth month. While for 
smaller breeds the increase should be in the same ratio — that is, about one- 
half every month over the preceding month. 
Ascaris Marginata. (Stonehenge.) 
These doses are for puppies that are fairly healthy; but for the thin and 
weakly they should be reduced to three-fourths or possibly to one-half. 
As previously urged, it is scarcely expedient or safe to dose nursing pup- 
pies, but if they suffer from worms and are not speedily relieved the chances 
are that they will die; hence one would be justified in applying treatment, and 
in such cases the fluid extract of pinkroot and senna would promise quite as 
well as any other vermifuge. The dose for puppies three weeks old and of 
breeds of medium or largest size is about five drops, to be given early in the 
morning, and for three or four days if worms are not expelled after the second 
or third dose. For fox-terriers and puppies of similar size the dose is two 
drops ; while for toys it should be one drop. Or if urgent symptoms are ex- 
hibited and danger to the little ones seems imminent, this vermifuge may be 
