90 DOGS 



2 drops a day, after the first week. Nourishing diet 

 should be given ; plenty of dog biscuits soaked in gravy and 

 milk. For small dogs a little meat should be given. 



Dogs should be kept warm and quiet, and as they 

 improve, 5 drops of Fer Bravais may be added to their 

 dinner. When they seem to feel pain it is a sign of im- 

 provement. 



Pleurisy 



This is acute inflammation of the lining membrane of 

 the chest, and should be similarly treated as inflammation 

 of the lungs. The symptoms are a dry nose, hot skin, 

 and panting with a bad cough. The dog must be kept 

 warm and covered with a blanket. Give a dose of 3 

 parts castor oil, 2 syrup of buckthorn, and 1 part syrup 

 of poppies ; give beef-tea, egg beaten up in milk, a little 

 broth with wine in it, and plenty of cold water to drink, 

 and apply a hot fomentation of turpentine to the chest. 



Psopiasis 



Give once weekly ^ oz. of Epsom salts in a cup of 

 warm water for a month, and apply as an ointment 2 oz. 

 sulphur, 3 oz. prepared lard, with 20 drops of tincture of 

 opium well worked into it. Add a teaspoonful of flowers 

 of sulphar daily to the dog's dinner for several weeks. 

 Never give salt meat. Eub the ointment well into the skin. 



Ptyalism 



(' Kara Avis ') 



Feed generoftsly ; soak biscuits in gravy ; give no 

 bones ; administer every morning a table-spoonful of cod- 

 liver oil in a pint of milk, and give some tonic pills pre- 

 pared according to the size. 



Rabies in Dogs 



(From ' Field, Farm, and Fireside ') 



In the early stage of rabies dogs are seldom viciously 

 inclined, but display often inordinate affection, licking the 



