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stances it will last for weeks ; in the event of which I would 
recommend strict attention to the state of the bowels, and 
that the nose be frequently fomented with pieces of flannel 
dipped in hot milk and water. 
Colonel Hawker recommends, in the case of a discharge 
from the nose, the use of a lotion, made by mixing half an 
ounce of sugar of lead, and the same quantity of alum, with 
a pint of water, and that the nose should be syringed with 
it. However effectual such applications may be in stopping 
the discharge, yet I cannot too strongly condemn the use of 
them, as having a tendency to bring on other diseases in the 
mucous membrane of the nose, and thereby affect, if not 
totally destroy, the olfactory nerves. But the truth is, the 
dischage from the nose is by no means an unfavourable 
symptom : the main risk the dog runs in this disease is from 
internal inflammation, and not from any affection of the 
argan ; and it is a very generally received opinion in me¬ 
dical practice, that it is not safe to check discharges sud¬ 
denly. 
When the irritability of the stomach continues, and it 
refuses to retain the medicine, the latter should be mixed up 
with a small piece of butter, and from thirty to fifty drops 
of laudanum added, according to the age, size, and strength 
of the dog. Should this not remain in the stomach, an 
hour and a half afterwards the same quantity of laudanum 
should be given in a little broth. The powder must also be 
administered, in twenty minutes or half an hour, made into 
a kind of paste with treacle and flour, or lintseed-meal, 
which will certainly have the effect of allaying the vomiting. 
But if the bowels are obstructed, which generally follows the 
use of much laudanum, and the reaching still continues, in 
this case some active purgative should be had recourse to, 
such as twenty grains of jalap, or fifteen grains of calomel, 
