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back at night ; and a dessert-spoonful of castor oil once a 

 month, given early in the morning, fasting, keeps the dog 

 in good order for a time ; give half a podophyllin pill in a 

 piece of butter twice a week for a fortnight. Feed on light 

 nourishing food, and give no bones- nor dry biscuits ; meat 

 is better for asthma than biscuit diet. Every morning 

 and night administer a teaspoonful of this mixture : half 

 an ounce of glycerine, tlie same of clear honey, 3 drops of 

 laudanum, 4 oz. of oil of terebene, and an eggspoonful 

 of powdered liquorice ; shake up all well together and rub 

 the chest (jently for a few minutes every other night. If 

 the cough is very bad, hold the dog's head over a jug 

 of boiling water for five minutes in which 3 drops of 

 eucalyptus has been added, and then put to bed for the 

 night. If the dog is very fat give a dose of Spratts' 

 Purging Pills every third day. 



When asthma is accompanied with bronchitis, give the 

 following mixture, which will be found efficacious : 3 oz. 

 mucilage of acacia, 3 oz. oxymel of squills, 1 oz. glycerine, 

 8 drops of oil of terebene ; shake well, and give a dose 

 morning and evening. Sometimes a teaspoonful of cod- 

 liver oil given daily, half an hour after the dog's dinner, is 

 a great relief. 



Asthma is sometimes caused by chronic disorder of the 

 liver, and then the following pills relieve the sufferer : ^ dr. 

 Barbadoes tar, 1 dr. powdered squills, 1 dr. bicarbonate 

 of soda, 1 scruple of extract of belladonna, and sufficient 

 powdered liquorice to make 2G pills, coated over with 

 tasteless varnish and made up small. 



Asthma generally attacks fat, overfed dogs, though it 

 often proceeds from a common cough which has been 

 neglected. The symptoms are a wheezy cough and difficult 

 breathing, which grow worse as the weather gets colder, 

 and a quantity of phlegm collects in the throat. 



Bowels, Inflammation of. See Enteritis 



Boils. See Abscesses 



