240 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
selves, dry, clean and warm in it, and coil’ themselves up 
cosily, to come out new creatures in the morning. 
I do not profess in this volume to treat of the medi- 
cal treatment of dogs at large, or for special disorders. 
Instructions for such cases will be found elsewhere, in my 
own larger work, in that of Dr. Lewis, in Blaine and 
Youatt’s Canine Pathologies, and above all in Mayhew on 
the Dog—which, as the latest, is by far the best treatise on 
the subject. 
Even with any or all of these aids, a young sportsman 
should be very careful of attempting to treat a dog for any 
serious case without veterinary advice of an experienced 
person. He will be apt to err in his diagnosis, to mistake 
symptoms, and perhaps to apply, as remedies, what are really 
stimulants to the disease. For trifling and casual ailments 
or disorders, rest, cool or warm quarters, as the symptoms 
point to fever or to chilly affections, and plain, wholesome 
diet, without flesh, will do much. 
Emetics, especially violent ones—and that most com- 
monly exhibited by amateurs and quacks, table salt in 
large quantities, is the most violent, and is often excruci- 
atingly severe in its operation—are generally to be avoided. 
Where they seem absolutely necessary, the dog suffer- 
ing intensely from tumefaction, heat, and tenseness of the 
abdomen, the best speedy emetic I have been used to 
esteem tartarized antimony and calomel, in doses varying, 
according to the size of the dog, from } gr. to one grain, 
given at intervals of half an hour until vomiting is pro- 
duced. But Mayhew prefers antimonial wine, from a half 
teaspoonful to a desert spoonful. 
