DOGS, CATS AND POULTRY 
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together, but if a very old dog there is not much ch: nee of 
the bones knitting together, although they might. If the 
fracture is down on the leg set the broken bone to its place 
and make a long, starch bandage (which is a bandage soaked 
in starch and then wrung out as dry as possible . Roll th( 
bandage around the fractured leg, letting it go two or three 
inches above and below the fracture, wrap it moderately 
tight and hold the leg and bandage straight until it hardens. 
Keep the dog quiet and leave the bandage on for three or 
four weeks until the bones are healed and he can use his leg 
all right. • 
4. Scalds and Burns. 
Unless these are very severe it may be well merely to 
keep the patient quiet, clean, warm and comfortable. If pre- 
vented from licking the parts applications of the white lotion 
is beneficial and will soon cause them to heal. 
Should proud flesh make its appearance in the wound, 
burn it out with a stick of caustic potash. 
5. Poisoning — Rat Poison, Strychnine or Arsenic. 
Causes. — The dog gets at these poisons often through 
accident. It frequently happens that they are purposely 
placed in his way by contemptible persons, who take this 
sneaky method of avenging themselves against the owner of 
the harmless brute. 
Symptoms. — Severe pains appear very quickly after the 
poison is eaten. He takes fits, slobbers at the mouth, the 
eyes bulge out and are bloodshot, and he keeps trembling 
all over. If the dog shows the above symptoms, and yoti 
have had poison around the place, or he has been anywhere 
that he could possibly get it, you may conclude that he has 
been poisoned. 
Treatment. — The treatment must be quick. Give the dog 
an emetic to make him vomit. This is the only way you can 
save his life. The idea is to get him to throw up the poison 
from the stomach before it gets absorbed into the blood. 
Give him one dessertspoonful of salt dissolved in a half tea- 
cupful of lukewarm water as a drench, or one teaspoonful 
of mustard dissolved in a half teacupful of lukewarm water 
as a drench. Either will cause vomiting. But the best of 
all, if you have it, to make him vomit, is to give from half a 
teaspoonful to a teaspoonful of sulphate of zinc dissolved in 
