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or half an average nut. The powder should be merely the nut 
roughly grated with a coarse “ grater ;” and it should be quickly 
mixed with some good broth, thickened with oatmeal, and given 
before the bitter taste is extracted by soaking ; after which the dog 
will not voluntarily take it. 
Stinking, hellebore is very innocent, and even useful in other 
ways. The dose for a 30-lbs. dog is five or six grains mixed up 
with eight or ten of jalap, and formed into a bolus, to be given | 
every five or six days. 
Indian pink is a very powerful vermifuge ; but it also occa- 
sionally acts very prejudicially on the dog; and it. must never be 
given without knowing the risk which is incurred. I have myself 
used it in numberless instances without injury; but its employment 
has so frequently been followed by fatal results in other hands 
that I cannot do otherwise than caution my readers against it. 
How, or why, this has been I have never been able to ascertain ; 
but that it is sol have no doubt whatever. If it is determined 
to use it, half an ounce of the drug, as purchased, should be infused 
in half a pint of boiling water; and of this infusion, after straining 
it, from a tablespoonful to two tablespoonsful should be given to 
the dogs, according to size, followed by a dose of oil. 
Calomel is a powerful expellent, but it also is attended with 
danger. The dose is from three to five grains, mixed with jalap. 
(See (12), page 354.) 
Wormwood may be given with advantage to young puppies, being 
mild in its operation ; but Ido not believe it to be as generally 
useful as the areca nut. The dose is from ten to thirty grains in 
syrup or honey. 
Santonine is an admirable remedy, when it can be procured in'a 
pure state. The brown is the best, of which from one-half to three 
grains is the dose, mixed with from five to fifteen grains of jalap, 
and given at intervals of a week. ; 
Cowhage, powdered tin, and glass all act by their mechanical 
irritation, and may be given without the slightest fear at any time. 
The first should be mixed with treacle, and a teaspoonful or two 
given occasionally.. The second and third are better mixed with 
butter, the dose being as much as can be heaped upon a shilling. 
Spirit of turpentine is without doubt the most. efficacious of all 
