The Dog Part 4

CASE.

We will now suppose a case, for our practice of late years has been confined to young puppies. Ears and feet cold; body and head very hot; body hard and distended; nose hard, dry, and almost stopped up with thick matter; dry, husky cough; faeces, hard; pulse rapid, evidencing much fever.

Give instantly, Calomel and Tartar Emetic, half a grain each, repeating it with intermissions of an hour, till you get a vomit. One hour after, give wine gla.s.s No. two. Twelve hours after, if fever has not abated, give three grains Calomel, followed in three hours by wine gla.s.s of No. two. If the next day you find any fever still lingering, give Calomel, three grains, as before, Antimonial Powder, eight grains. This will, with, in three hours, the usual quant.i.ty of No. two, be pretty sure to be successful. You must now address yourself to the cold and other symptoms; and you may give large doses of Ipecacuanha and Nitre. Keep the bowels open, but avoid active purging, except in cases of fever. If you find at any time the body getting hard and distended, administer the emetic. Let the dog out into the air whenever it is fine and warm, keep his nose well cleaned out, and change his bed daily. Encourage him to drink fresh water, if he will.

The receipts alluded to in the previous pages are as follows:--

_No. 1._--_For young pups up to six months old._--Of Epsom salts, take two ounces; of water, one quart. Mix well, and keep close corked.

_No. 2._--Eight ounces of Saturated Solution of Epsom salts, in water; thirty drops Sulphuric Acid. Mix well, and cork close.

Antimony is preferable, when there is fever. It is an antiphlogistic.

Ipecacuanha, when there is much debility. The last also affects the lungs, and is more efficient in removing cold.

Half an ounce of salts is a fair dose for a dog from nine months to any age. No. 2 is particularly recommended, whenever an early action is required. It is essentially short, sharp and decisive.

FORM OF GAME BOOK.

+-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | Total | | Date. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Deer. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Turkey. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Ruffed Grouse. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Pinnated Grouse. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Quail. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Snipe. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Woodc.o.c.k. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Duck. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Teal. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Rail. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Plover. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Guns. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Shots. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | Place where shooting. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | | No. of Head to own Gun. | +-------+------------------------+-------------------------+ | | REMARKS. | | | | | | | | | | +--------------------------------+-------------------------+

This will be found as convenient a form as any for recording the season's bag, and I would suggest as a means to accurately determine the number of shots, to put a given number, say 50 or 80 caps, into your cap pocket every day on going out, deducting any miss-fired and wasted ones from the balance left on returning. This will give you an exact idea of your average shootings, which will be found not to exceed three out of five shots. In the column of remarks you can state your companion, quant.i.ty of game seen, &c.; in fact, any point worthy of notice, and to which afterwards you can refer. The writer's book dates back to 1845, and records every head of game killed while he was out, by his own, as also his friend's gun, remarks on the weather, curious ornithological observations, &c.

DOGS,

AND THEIR MANAGEMENT;

BEING A NEW PLAN FOR TREATING THE ANIMAL, BASED UPON A CONSIDERATION OF

HIS NATURAL TEMPERAMENT.

Ill.u.s.trated by numerous Engravings,

DEPICTING THE CHARACTER AND POSITION OF THE DOG WHEN SUFFERING DISEASE.

BY EDWARD MAYHEW, M.R.C.V.S.

SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.

PREFACE.

In the following pages is laid before the public the result of several years' study. The Author hopes to be able, ultimately, to perfect a system of treatment which shall change only with the progress of the science, of which it can be no more than an offshoot. Saying this, the writer cannot be accused of self-glorification, since there is in the field no living author over whom he might appear to triumph.

The book was also written with the hope of inducing the gentlemen of the Author's profession to study more carefully the Pathology of the Dog. This is at present not properly taught, nor is it rightly understood by the Veterinarians who profess to alleviate canine afflictions. Of all the persons who accept such offices, there is but one who, to the Author's knowledge, devotes the time, attention, or care which disease in every shape demands; and the individual thus honorably distinguished, is MR.

GOWING of Camden Town.

CONTENTS OF MAYHEW'S MANAGEMENT.

Page

General Remarks, 73

Distemper, 120

Mouth, Teeth, Tongue, Gullet, &c., 179

Bronchocele, 198

Respiratory Organs, 200

Hepat.i.tis, 221

Indigestion, 227

Gastritis, 233

St. Vitus's Dance, 240

Bowel Diseases, 246

Paralysis of the Hind Extremities, 270

Rheumatism, 274

The r.e.c.t.u.m, 278

Fits, 295

Rabies, 299