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administered, as to puppies that have been weaned, three times daily for two 
or three days. 
The senna may have sufficient laxative effect, but if not, a dose of olive- 
or sweet-oil should be given on the third or fourth day when the treatment has 
been applied only once each day; or within a few hours after the medicine 
has been stopped if it has been administered three times daily. 
It will be advisable always to prevent nursing for at least one hour after 
giving pinkroot and senna. 
Some very intelligent and successful breeders are accustomed to administer 
pinkroot and senna to all puppies almost as soon as they are born. To the 
medium size breeds, on the third day after whelping they give three drops of 
this fluid extract, and repeat the dose every other day until the pups’ eyes are 
opened. Then it is increased to six drops, and that quantity is administered 
every second day for about a week; after which, still given as often, it is 
steadily increased, until in the sixth week it is about thirty drops. The use 
of this medicine is then discontinued, and thereafter these breeders generally 
give, about once each week, for several months, one grain of santonin com- 
bined with an equal quantity of calomel. 
This system of treatment has been described for the purpose of showing 
that when administered by some, unusually large quantities of vermifuges have 
been safely borne ; but doses so large cannot rightly be recommended for gen- 
eral use. The smaller doses, previously advised, as a rule expel the trouble- 
some intruders; and it goes without saying that, the object being attained, the 
less medicine given the better. 
Another treatment that would seem much too heroic, but which a few 
breeders, undeniably intelligent, claim to have safely employed, is by the means 
of the oil of turpentine. Of this they give fifteen drops, in a teaspoonful of 
sweet-oil, to pups that are only two or three days old. It is evident from their 
reports, however, that before administering this vermifuge in such doses they 
are quite convinced that the little ones have worms, and must die unless 
promptly relieved. 
At this point it can wisely be again urged that the effects of medicines are 
somewhat variable. After acting perfectly well in a large number of cases, in 
the very next case, which seems precisely like those in which it has been so 
successfully used, a remedy may prove worthless, and even hurtful. Again, 
in consequence of individual peculiarities or idiosyncrasies, sometimes one 
member of a litter will appear to be injured by a drug that other members 
have not only borne well but been greatly improved by its use. It follows, 
therefore, that one should not pin his faith on any remedy, even for a single 
affection ; and he ought to be fortified with several, — indeed as many as pos- 
sible — lest his favorites fail him. 
A remedy for worms, which acts well as a rule with puppies, is the sulphate 
