DIETETIC TREATMENT 165 
Sanitas powder. Neither is toxic or causes irritation to 
skin or mucous membrane, but both are anti-parasitic, 
and respiratory antiseptics. In this connection isolation 
of the sick dog is of little use in curtailing the spread of 
infection to other dogs if the person who attends the 
animal is not also isolated, for the contagion is readily 
carried on his clothes, boots, and hands unless overalls 
and goloshes are worn and the greatest precautions 
observed. 
Excrement should be covered and surrounded with 
pine sawdust or kennel powder as soon as noticed, as 
this facilitates its removal, and helps one to avoid it 
prior to such removal. 
In those instances where more dogs than one are 
affected with distemper, and are being treated under the 
same roof, it is a good precautionary plan to isolate each 
from the other as much as possible, particularly if the 
infection has not originated from the same source, be- 
cause we may find one dog has fallen to a comparatively 
virulent attack, whilst its companion has contracted only 
a mild type, and it is quite conceivable that the former 
will transmit its malignant contagium to the latter, pro- 
ducing in it severe symptoms or complications which 
oe never have arisen had the individuals been kept 
art. 
Stimulation of the skin by gentle brushing each 
morning is attended by good results in all cases except 
those which have become too weak to withstand the 
fatigue of being handled; therefore the activities of the 
nurse in this direction must be guided by the indications 
of the patient’s condition. The brushing of a dog’s coat 
has exactly the same stimulating and refreshing effect on 
the dog as the morning wash has on the human being. 
Dietetics.—The proper dieting of a sick dog is of 
‘paramount importance, and its methodical execution is a 
