ADMlNISTKRINa MEDICINES. 5 



him up for half-an-hour after giving the dose, with his head in a 

 slightly elevated position. 



Some medicines are so extremely nauseous that their effect on the 

 palate causes immediate sickness, and it was specially to meet such 

 a case that Mr. Sidney E. Barrett designed the syringe-drencher 

 illustrated at Fig. 1. The medicine measure and drencher (Fig. 2), 

 which I invented and had made some twenty years ago, was intended 

 to answer the same end. 



In giving nauseous medicines— such, for instance, as oil of male- 

 fern, which is often prescribed for worms— Mr. Barrett's method is 

 excellent. It was, in fact, the giving of that medicine, which I had 

 advised for his dog, that suggested the plan to Mr. Barrett, which 

 he thus describes : " I gave the drench by means of a glass syringe, 



Fig. 1. Mr. Sidney b. Barrett's Syringe-Drencher for 

 GIVING Medicines to Dogs. 



on the end of which I fitted a 3iu. long bit of indiarubber tubing. I 

 filled the syringe by pouring the stuff in at the end A (Fig. 1), and 

 then placed the piston in its proper position. By putting the 

 tube (C) some way beyond the back of the tongue, and then squirt- 

 ing the contents of B through C, I avoided leaving a nauseous 

 flavour in the dog's mouth." 



My own contrivance was intended as a substitute for a spoon, in 

 using which more or less of the medicine is generally spilt ; and for 

 the bottle, out of which some people give medicine direct, but with 

 gi'eat danger of the dog crvmching the bottle and lacerating his 

 mouth with pieces of the glass. It consists of a glass bottle, very 

 strongly made, and of about 3oz. (six tablespoonfuls) capacity, the 

 mouth being just wide enough to be easily covered with the finger. 

 The bottom is drawn out by the glass-blower, and the end formed 

 into a rounded nozzle. Over this is stretched and tied a piece of 

 indiarubber tubing, into the extreme end of which is inserted a bone 



