620 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 
which will entice dogs to eat when nothing else 
may. 
Well, we have Keen and Robinson’s patent 
barley, which should always be used in the sick- 
room and for convalescence; dogs like it, too. 
New-laid eggs are invaluable as invalid diet, 
so is nice clean tripe, stewed rabbit with the 
meat minced, nicely cooked fish, sweetbreads 
grilled, or rabbits’ and chickens’ liver cooked in 
the same way. 
Milk is a standard sick diet, but it must be 
fresh from the cow. Goat’s milk is excellent for 
dogs. 
Tea, if a dog will lap it, is very refreshing, 
and chocolates nearly all dogs are fond of. No 
medicine cupboard would be complete without 
Bovril, which is one of the greatest inventions 
of the age. Other beef-teas are merely stimu- 
lants, this is a food. 
A jar of Virol is not to be forgotten. During 
convalescence nothing picks a dog up so soon, 
and it is, moreover, just the thing for the coat. 
Have every drug or medicine carefully kept in 
bottles or jars, and all labelled with minimum 
and maximum dose, which must accord with the 
animal’s strength and weight. 
No cupboard is complete without the following 
articles: A clinical thermometer, a catheter or 
two (learn how to use them), scale and weights, 
pestal and mortar, minim glasses and glass rod, 
a spatula; roller bandages suitable in width, say 
from 1 to 2% inches; a packet of boric lint, ditto 
of cotton wool, some oiled paper, tow, scissors, 
safety pins, glass tubes containing sterilised 
needles and ligatures in case you want to sew a 
wound; carbolic acid lotion, Friar’s balsam, 
carron oil for burns, strong solution of perman- 
ganate of potash—all in square glass stoppered 
bottles; a pot of Zam-Buk, a pot of zinc ointment, 
and one of vaseline. 
The castor-oil and syrup of buckthorn aperient 
should be kept handy. It is two parts of the 
former to one of the latter. 
A pet dog of mine bids me remind my readers 
that there is no better medicine in the world for 
the canine race than the green blades of the 
common couch grass. In large doses it is an 
emetic, in smaller a laxative, and in still smaller 
it is a blood purifier or anti-scorbutic. In a word, 
it is the dog’s panacea. He prefers to help him- 
self to it, especially early in the morning, but it 
may be culled for him and brought heme. 
A CANINE TURN-OUT. 
(By courtesy of ‘Our Dogs.”) 
