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ates, if he be costive. If his bowels be loose, give him a dessert-spoonful of 
spiced sirup of rhubarb every two hours, until the passages are colored 
by it. Give him rich soup, little and often. If he still grow weak, you 
may put a teaspoonful of whiskey in each pint of soup. With patience and 
care he will be apt to recover. He may require to have tincture of bark, 
as a stimulus, and opium, or some mild astringent, to check the looseness 
of the bowels, but about these, which are rather powerful medicines, you 
had better consult some experienced person. Do not be too quick to take 
volunteer advice, for no dog can stand the amount of medicine people will 
recommend you to give him. 
Worms .—Dogs occasionally suffer with these, to the injury of health, 
and you will see the worms ejected now and then in the passages. If the 
animal starts a deal in his sleep, is troubled with itching at the nose, and 
does not gain flesh on his fair allowance of food, you may suspect worms. 
The best remedy is: Cowhage, half a drachm; tin filings (very fine), four 
drachms. Make up with molasses and flour, into five or six balls, or boluses. 
You had better get this done by the apothecary, or you may get more of 
the cowhage than you like on your hands. Give one every day, followed 
four hours afterward by a purge of salts. Or give the following: Cowhage, 
a teaspoonful; aloes, forty grains. Make into ten pills, with molasses, and 
give one every morning. 
Colds , Coughs , etc .—A purge of oil, a little less food than usual, and keep¬ 
ing him in a warm place, will generally answer. 
Bruises or Sprains .—Rub opodeldoc well into the part frequently through 
the day. 
Fleas .—To kill these, mix a half teaspoonful of snuff in two quarts of 
gin, and wash him well. If less gin, then less tobacco. If you make it too 
strong, you will not only kill the fleas, but probably your dog. 
To take out Thorns. —Extract them with pliers, if they are to be grasped. 
If too far in, bind up the place with a plaster of shoemaker’s wax, or a 
bread poultice, and you will soon draw it out. 
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