384 KENNEL DISEASES. 
For internal treatment preference is given to calomel in minute doses. 
Granules of various strengths can be obtained, ready prepared by druggists. 
Those containing one one-hundredth of a grain would be right for toys or 
dogs of the size of fox terriers; while one-fiftieth of a grain would be suitable 
for medium and large size breeds. 
One granule should be dropped on to the back part of the tongue, and 
the patient forced to swallow, every fifteen minutes during the day, and nearly 
as often, if possible, during the night. 
If the throat is much inflamed, or the breathing indicates that the air 
passages have been involved, a small bellows should be obtained, of the form 
designed for insect powder ; and in this the following should be used. 
Calomel, one-half a drachm; sugar of milk, three and one-half drachms. 
Every four or five hours, about one-fourth of a teaspoonful of this should 
be put into the bellows. Then, the head of the patient being fixed and the 
jaws opened widely, the tube of the instrument should be inserted and the 
powder thrown into the throat as deeply as possible. 
One granule should be administered and the insufflation practised as ad- 
vised until there are black discharges from the bowels; when they should be 
discontinued. 
The same patient may have the peroxide of hydrogen used in his thoat as 
well as insufflations of calomel, but between the different applications there 
should be an interval of about two and one-half hours. 
If there is great prostration and the patient is steadily growing weaker, 
heart failure is threatened, and a stimulant tonic must be given. Strychnia 
recommends itself, and should be in form of granules as follows: 
For largest breeds, one-fiftieth ; medium size, one-sixtieth ; fox terriers and 
the like, one one-hundredth ; toys one two-hundredth of a grain. 
One granule should be administered every six hours. 
If weakness be progressive, brandy should be added to the treatment, and 
given every fourth hour, in doses from one-half a teaspoonful to a tablesponful. 
Strong beef-tea, raw eggs and milk, scraped lean raw beef, or beef juice, 
should be forced into the patient, every three or four hours. 
That the disease is to some extent a menace to numbers of the human 
family who are in contact should be accentuated. Only those whose assis- 
tance is actually required should be admitted to the patient; and they can 
easily obviate any danger. His breath is contaminating, and were he to cough 
in the face of the caretaker the results might prove serious, in consequence of 
the poison being thrown into the eyes or onto the lips. 
The writer has attended many hundreds of cases of diphtheria in children 
without suffering any injury, and the only precautions taken were to immedi- 
ately bathe his face and eyes in pure water when the patients had coughed on 
those parts; and alwa s while in the presence of a diphtheritic patient he kept 
