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telves, dry, clean and warm in it, and coil themselves up 

 cosily, to come out new creatures in the morning. 



I do not profess in this volume to treat of the medi- 

 cal treatment of dogs at large, or for special disorders. 

 Instructions for such cases will be found elsewhere, in my 

 own larger work, in that of Dr. Lewis, in Blaine and 

 Youatt's Canine Pathologies, and above all in Mayhew on 

 the Dog — which, as the latest, is by far the best treatise on 

 the subject. 



Even with any or all of these aids, a young sportsman 

 should be very careful of attempting to treat a dog for any 

 serious case without veterinary advice of an experienced 

 person. He will be apt to err in his diagnosis, to mistake 

 symptoms, and perhaps to apply, as remedies, what are really 

 stimulants to the disease. For trifling and casual ailments 

 or disorders, rest, cool or warm quarters, as the symptoms 

 point to fever or to chilly affections, and plain, wholesome 

 diet, without flesh, will do much. 



Emetics, especially violent ones — and that most com- 

 monly exhibited by amateurs and quacks, table salt in 

 large quantities, is the most violent, and is often excruci- 

 atingly severe in its operation — are generally to be avoided. 



Where they seem absolutely necessary, the dog suffer- 

 ing intensely from tumefaction, heat, and tenseness of the 

 abdomen, the best speedy emetic I have been used to 

 esteem tartarized antimony and calomel, in doses varying, 

 according to the size of the dog, from ^ gr. to one grain, 

 given at intervals of half an hour until vomiting is pro- 

 duced. But Mayhew prefers antimonial wine, from a half 

 teaspoonful to a desert spoonful. 



