CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



GENBBAL MANAGEMENT. 



PAGE 



Introduction. — The Care of Puppies after "Weaning. — Feeding. — Exercise. — 



Wasbing,— Kennel Arrangements.— Grooming.— Vermin. ... 1 



CHAPTER II. 



ANTIDOTES AND TEEATMENT IN CASKS OF POISONING. 



General Remarks. — Rules in using Medicine. — ^Arsenic. — Strychnine and Nux 

 Vomica. — Carbolic Acid. — Phosphorus. — Mercury. — Lead Salts. — Gen- 

 eral Antidote 15 



CHAPTER ni. 



THE PRINCIPLES OP MEDICINE. 



Pathology. — Definition of Health.— Diagnosis. -Reasoning by way of Exclu- 

 sion,— Frognosis.-Prognostics.— Causation.— Administering Medicine. . 19 



CHAPTER IV. 



SPECIAL PATHOLOGY AND THEBAPEUTICS. 



Introduction. — ^Definition of terms Acute, Subacute, and Chronic. — Self-limited 

 Duration of Certain Diseases. — The Expectant Plan of Treatment. — 

 Rules for Estimating the Doses of Medicine. — Examination of a Dog. — 

 Indications of the Pulse.— Importance of Hygienic Measures of Treat- 

 ment 23 



DISEASES AFPECTING THE BESPIBATOET OKGANS. 



Acute Pleurisy. — Chronic Pleurisy.— Pneumonia.— Bronchitis.— Consumption. 

 — Asthma. — Acute Laryngitis. — Chronic Laryngitis. — Acute Catarrh. — 

 Kasal Polypns.—Ozsena.— Influenza 29 



CHAPTER V. 



AFFECTIONS OF THE MOUTH AND TONGUE. 



Eruption of the Teeth.— Treatment of the Teeth.— Softening of the Gums.— 

 Cancrum Oris. — Salivation. — Blain.— Inflammation of the Tongue.— 

 Pharyngitis 49 



