is gradually wasting and sinking, no medical skill can arrest the progress of the disease. A seton, the keeping of the bowels in a rather relaxed state, the feeding of the dog, and the exhibition of tonic medicines, will be the principal means indicated; and to these may be added local applications. RECIPE (No. 30). Embrocation for Palsy and Rheumatism. Hartshorn; and Camphorated spirit; one ounce each: A little of this should be well rubbed in along the course of the spine, morning and night, being omitted for a few days if the part should become blistered or very sore. In a great many cases, and particularly when palsy is the consequence of either constipation or rheumatism, or both, these measures will fail of success, and recourse must be had to another stimulus. The hair must be cut off from the beginning of the loins to the tail, and extending half way down the thigh, on either side. A piece of thick white leather must be cut precisely to fit the part from which the hair has been clipped, and, the materials for a charge,* having been melted and spread *RECIPE (No. 31). A charge for the Loins or Legs. TAKE-Pitch, three pounds; Tar, one pound; Bees-wax, half a pound : Mix them together, and, when they are cool enough to be conveniently applied, spread the charge thickly over the loins, and scatter some flocks of short tow over it before it gets quite cold and firm. on the leather, it must be applied over the loins while warm as accurately as possible. It will adhere closely to the skin, and almost without the possibility of getting it off, for three weeks or a month; and in that time its constant but mild stimulus will often recall the power of motion. Rheumatism is also a frequent disease of the dog. It is entailed upon him by his unnatural petted state. Its most frequent immediate cause is constipation, degenerating by degrees into inflammation of the bowels. He cries when he gets up, cries when he walks, cries when he is lifted up, and frequently if he is merely looked at. The remedy is in most cases very simple and perfectly effectual. He must first be put into a warm bath of the temperature of 96 degrees, and kept in it ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. As soon as he comes from the bath the aperient medicine must be administered in the dose of a dessert or tablespoonful, according to his size, and repeated in half doses morning and night until he is relieved. This will usually be all that is necessary; but if complete relief is not afforded, recourse may be had to the rheumatic embrocation (Recipe No. 30, p. 199), which should be well rubbed on the part that seems to be principally affected, and should follow the apparent shiftings of the disease from limb to limb. CHAPTER XXXIII. INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. THE existence of this disease is easily recognised. There is not only the cessation of the cough, the heaving, the heat of the mouth, and the coldness of the feet, which characterize the same malady in the horse, but there is the same disinclination to lie down. The dog seats himself upon his haunches, his head elevated, his muzzle protruded, his breathing hard and quick, and his countenance anxious; yet there he sits, and will sit hour after hour, and until he is so completely wearied that his legs slip from under him; still he recovers himself, and will not fall until he falls to die. The causes which lead on to cold and inflammation of the chest in other animals will produce it in the dog; and he is often predisposed to it by the foolish nursing that is lavished upon him. He must be bled, and to the full quantity, according to his size. To this should follow a dose of physic. The Epsom salts rolled in paper, or in solution, will be most likely to remain on his stomach and to produce the desired effect. Then should be given the cough and fever balls (Recipe No. 20, p. 187), made fully large when compared with his size, and repeated morning, noon, and night. A second bleeding should take place if the inflammation is not subdued; yet some caution should be exercised here, for the dog suffers more, perhaps, than any other animal by an unnecessary loss of blood. All food should be removed, or only a little milk and broth, allowed. water, or weak This inflammation is either originally, or it soon becomes, one of the pleura, and then effusion in the chest quickly follows. For this there is seldom any cure. CHAPTER XXXIV. POISONS-WORMS. Few animals are so exposed to the vengeance of some miscreant, or so much in the way of accidental poisoning, as the dog. The poisons usually given, or picked up by chance, are arsenic, corrosive sublimate, and nux vomica, and there is seldom any remedy. The two first are attended by excruciating colicky pains, and a discharge of blood by stool. When this last symptom appears there is no hope. The poison of lead may be combated. Dogs are fond of licking new paint, on account of the oil which it contains, and perhaps the sweetness of the lead. They often likewise lap water that has long stood in paint-pots that have been carelessly suffered to stand about. The symptoms are the crying and moaning of the animal, his anxious countenance, his peculiarly tucked up and corded belly, and an excessive degree of costiveness. The bowels must be opened-particularly with calomel, in order that a chemical decomposition may take place. The lead that has been received into the stomach or intestines has a strong affinity for the chlorine with which the mercury is combined; and a salt of lead, the chloride or muriate, is formed, which is not or a poison |