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dog. Santonine, from 1 to 5 grs., extract of male fern from 

 5 to 20 drops. A.reca nut may be calculated at the rate 

 of 2 grs. to each pound the dog weighs. 



Pups with worms should take santonine in liaseed oil ; 

 terriers five or six weeks old half a grain in half a tea^ 

 spoonful of linseed oil. One dog writer gives the following 

 formula for worms : ' Feed in the middle of the day, and 

 at eight o'clock in the evening give a dessert-spoonful of 

 salad oil, and early in the following morning give 20 grs. 

 of kamala in a teaspoonful of salad oil ; an hour later 

 a table-spoonful of equal parts of syrup of buckthorn and 

 castor oil mixed, followed in another hour by a saucerful 

 of warm broth ; and then feed as usual in the afternoon.' 

 I have never tried this remedy, so cannot answer for it. 

 Some dogs breed very tiny worms like fine threads, and an 

 old naturalist at Sandgate, who had made dog-worms his 

 study, gave me the following prescription, which he said 

 perfectly cleansed the system of them : 4 grs. powder julep, 

 4 grs. powder valerian, 4 drops oil of rodan ; but I have 

 never tried, it, as he omitted to say in what it was mixed. 



Some people with very small dogs prefer homoeopathic 

 treatment, giving santonine globules or Gina anth. (worm- 

 seed). 



Large dogs should be shut up until after the action of 

 the medicine is over. The excreta should always be de- 

 stroyed with carbolic acid, or burned. 



Wounds, Treatment of 



As a rule, wounds of domestic animals, except the cat, 

 heal very rapidly under the simplest treatment, all that is 

 necessary being cleanliness and efficient drainage. To this 

 latter point, Mr. Wentworth says, ' great attention must be 

 paid, for if the wound does not discharge freely on account 

 of its position, as in a deep puncture, or a tear rijnning 

 across the fibre of muscles, or when it is closed so perfectly 

 as to have no dependent orifice to let infiammation products 

 escape, there is sure to be much pain and a bad mend.' 



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