14d The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
him to do so. Pushing the pill down with the finger is 
injudicious and unnecessary. The other and more advis- 
able way, if it can be contrived, is by deception—z.c., 
clothing the pill in a little meat, and throwing it to the 
animal to bolt. ; 
With regard to draughts, they should be administered as 
follows :—The animal being placed in the same position as 
for the pill, the angle of the mouth is drawn away from the 
teeth, and into the pouch thus formed the medicine may 
be poured ; the same means as recommended in the former 
will, if he refuses, compel him to swallow it. 
Some forms of medicine, more or less tasteless from the 
minuteness of the dose, may be given in a little milk or 
broth, which the animal laps voluntarily. 
NURSING. 
It is, I think, necessary before entering on the general 
subject of diseases, that I should say a few words about 
nursing. . 
As in human, so in canine practice, good nursing is one 
of the greatest helps the medical attendant can have: 
indeed, it may almost be said to be indispensable in the 
treatment of disease. 
Warmth, comfort, cleanliness, pure air, good food, and 
water, regularity in the administration of medicine whére 
it has to be given, kindness, watchfulness in the progress or 
abatement of certain symptoms, are all matters requiring 
the supervision of the nurse. 
In short, the health of the patient is in the majority of 
cases quite as much in the hands of the nurse as of the pro- 
fessional attendant, and the fault so often, in all classes of 
practice, attached to the medical treatment would generally 
be more correctly placed to the lack of attention on the 
part of those on whom the general care of the patient 
devolves. It is always, therefore, advisable to let the latter 
