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The diet must be very carefully regulated all through the disease. 

 All milk given should be slightly thickened with arrowroot. Such 

 light and easily-digested food as weU-boUed oatmeal, rice, or arrow- 

 root should be given, with milk or beef -tea ; and if the patient refuse 

 to feed, a little should be given with a spoon or a drencher every two 

 or three hovirs. When the dog is very weak, add a little port wine 

 to the food ; instead of plain water, give rice or barley-water to drink, 

 In the case of bitches suckling, the diet must be changed, a dose 

 of castor oil given, and the Astringent Anodyne Mixture in small 

 doses. 



It is most important that rigorous cleanliness should be observed. 

 AJl discharges should be immediately removed, and the animal kept 

 clean by sponging with lukewarm water if necessary, while disinfec- 

 tants should be sprinkled about. The patient should also be kept 

 warm, and left as quiet and undisturbed as possible. 



DIPHTHEKIA. — Dogs, it is held by some veterinarians, are 

 liable to this alarming and fatal disease. A case is on record where 

 the disease was communicated to a dog which had the remains of food 

 given to it that had been partaken of by a child suffering from 

 diphtheria. I have no advice to offer as to treatment in such cases. 

 The slightest suspicion of diphtheria suggests isolation, redoubled 

 attention to sanitary measures, and the immediate calling in of a 

 veterinary surgeon. It seems reasonable that if man can communi- 

 cate this disease to the dog, on the other hand the dog may be a 

 medium for carrying the contagion from place to place ; and it has 

 often occurred to me that great danger lurks in the practice of allow- 

 ing ownerless dogs to prowl about the streets, picking up their living 

 in the gutters and from refuse-heaps. May they not in this way 

 cariy the contagion of many virulent diseases ? 



SISIiOCATIOITS. — Displacements of the joints are not un- 

 common, the hip being most often dislocated, but they also occur with 

 the shoulder, knee, stifle, elbow, and toes. Some dislocations are 

 accompanied by fracture, adding greatly to the difficulty of treat- 

 ment ; and even in simple dislocations the reduction of them should 

 be entrusted to a veterinai-y surgeon, whose knowledge of anatomy 

 and experience in operations of the kind would enable him to perform 

 it more readily, and with the least possible pain to the dog ; indeed, 

 dogs under such operations have now, as a rule, anaesthetics ad- 

 ministered. Where professional aid cannot be obtained, the person 

 proposing to reduce the luxation should first examine and determine 

 In what direction the bone is parted from its socket ; for instance, in 

 dislocation of the hip, the head of the thigh-bone is generally carried 



