THE DOS. 



and the dog generally is not long before it baffles the efforts to 

 confine it. Moreover, unless the assistant he very well np to 

 his business his steadiness cannot be depended on, and the 

 hand often is wounded by the teeth of the patient." 



PAEALTSIS. 



This IS another result of over-feeding, and before all others 

 affects those pets which are so pretty, so interesting, that freedom 

 of the dining and breakfast rooms is accorded them. The con- 

 sequence is they have never done eating. In just as many meals 

 as the family partake of they participate, and that almost with- 

 out the knowledge of a single person at the table ; that is, with- 

 out a single person being aware that at each meal the dog eats 

 as plentifully as himself. Each one is ready to declare that 

 " rido" has only had " the least bit in the world," and that — 

 allowing, of coxirse, for the extravagance of common parlance — 

 is true as regards each individual's experience. The secret, how- 

 ever, is that from each Pido has only received one — or two — of 

 the " least bits in the world," but .then the persevering Httle 

 mendicant has been the round of the board and obtained, per- 

 haps, six or seven contributions. He grows fat, monstrously 

 fat, he is such a funny little barrel of a dog it is quite ludicrous 

 to watch him. 



Some fine day, however, the " funny little barrel " is dis- 

 covered floundering about the carpet, seemingly well enough in 

 all other respects, but with his hind legs trailing and benumbed 

 and evidently useless for locomotive purposes. The dog is 

 hurt, been squeezed in a door, or had some piece of heavy fur- 

 niture thrown down on his loins ! All a mistake ; therefore 

 do not blame John or Mary for the calamity, or give them 

 warning for "concealing the truth." The truth is patent : the 

 poor beast is paralyzed in its hind legs. 



To cure this, have prepared the following prescription : — 

 01. Eioini, 4 parts ; 01. OUvse, 2 parts ; 01. Anisi, q. s. ; mix. 



Administer this with a cathartic piU every day till the limbs 

 are restored to their healthy action, and for a few days after- 

 wards. Do not, however, be induced by the easy cure of the 

 first attack to renew the patient's unnatural mode of feeding. 

 If you do, he will certainly be again attacked, and again and 

 again — the chances of recovery diminishing with every attack, 

 till there comes one that defies all the medical skill in the 

 kingdom. 



