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breathing is easier. Squire's I'arrish's Chemical Food given 

 once daily when it is recovering is most beneficial. Should 

 the dog be too weak to lap, soak a small sponge with its 

 beef-tea, or milk with brandy, and squeeze in its mouth. 



Homoeopathic arsenicum in drops, it is said, will cure 

 dogs of distemper when all other means fail. 



I am told that in cases of distemper 2 drops of 

 tincture of aconite in 4 drops of water every four hours 

 is very beneficial ; also half a grain of quinine added to the 

 food three times a day is a good thing. If the head is 

 much affected and the eyes bloodshot, keep ice, or a cooling 

 lotion, constantly applied to the top of head. Spratt, in his 

 little treatise, says that it is a healthy symptom when yellow 

 coloured pustules appear on the belly inside of thighs, &c. 

 ' The essence of this disease is loiu fever of a typhoid cha- 

 racter. In the Jhst stage the torpid condition of the liver 

 should be treated ; in the second the symptoms should be 

 arrested as they arise by as mild a treatment as will con- 

 trol them ; the thii'd to support the strength by tonics and 

 nourishing food.' A relapse must always be guarded 

 against, and the best plan is to keep the dog indoors or in 

 his kennel till quite strong. But as a writer says, ' Dis- 

 temper cannot be treated upon any one plan, but must be 

 managed according to the nature and stage of its develop- 

 ment;' but there is no doubt that Pacita is the best remedy 

 at the first symptoms. I always keep a bottle of Pacita 

 by me, and should administer half a dose if distemper 

 was feared, and also Kirby pearl-coated rhubarb pills, 

 given in a lump of butter as early in the morning as 

 possible. 



Tonic Pills after Distemper 



Half a grain of quinine, ^ gr. of sulphate of iron, 1 gr. 

 of extract of gentian, and 1 gr. of ginger in each pill, 

 cover with tasteless varnish, and give one daily for three 

 weeks just before the pup's midday meal. 



