{"1": {"fulltext": "SF 427\\n.P69\\nCopy 1\\n1 I Um\\n[CJVSE DOGS\\n.R G^RE AND TREATMENT.\\nBy.R. B. Plage man, D. V.S.", "height": "2561", "width": "1986", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2566", "width": "1986", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2566", "width": "1986", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": ".v\\nHOUSE DOGS,\\nTheir Care and Treatment,\\nBY\\nR. B. PLACEMAN, D. V. S.,\\n11\\nMEMBER AN3 VETERINARIAN OF THE\\nAMERICAN PET DOG CLUB,\\nMETROPOLITAN KENNEL CLUB SHOW,\\nVETERINARY EDITOR OF THE\\nAMERICAN KENNEL GAZETTE,\\nI)\\nAND ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE\\nAMERICAN KENNEL CLUB.\\nWith eye upraised his master s look to scan,\\nThe joy, the solace, and the aid of man\\nThe rich man s guardian and the poor man s friend,\\nThe only creature faithful to the end.\\nPUBLISHFD BY\\nS, C. HODGE, 21 P.4RK Row. New York.\\nu", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": ".V-\\nTNATO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nLibrary of Con\u00c2\u00a7r e\u00c2\u00abfl|^\\nOffice of thQ\\nDEC 6 1899\\nRegister of Copyrlghfib\\n3792\\nCopyright, 1899.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. B. PLACEMAN.\\nCopyright, 1899.- S. C. HODGE.\\nSftCOMO COPY,", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "TO\\nMRS. WALTER STANTON,\\nPresident of tl^e American Pet Dog Club,\\nAn ardent adn^irer of dogs, and or^e wl^o takes the\\ndeepest interest ir| their improvement\\nand welfare, this little work\\nIs RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "How can I keep my dog in health is a question very\\noften asked me. It is no easy matter to keep a dog\\nin a large city healthy, considering the many draw-\\nbacks which the owner has to contend with.\\nA dog kept in the city is supposedly a pet dog, no\\nmatter what his breed, as he has no definite use the\\nselection of a dog as a pet is a mere matter of fancy\\na St. Bernard or a Great Dane may be a lady s pet.\\nThe American Pet Dog Club found it a stickler\\nsome time ago when they contemplated changing the\\nname of the club, the question arose could not a Mas-\\ntiff be a lady s pet, as well as a King Charles Spaniel,\\nalthough he may not be a lap-dog. But the surround-\\nmgs of a dog should be suited as nearly as possible to\\nhis breed.\\nA St. Bernard may be your choice, but he will be\\nno end of worriment to you in a city to keep him in\\nhealth this applies to most of the large breeds.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "What a pitiable sight it is to sec the once magnifi-\\ncent animal, fat, his spirits all gone, walking with de-\\ncrepit step, his coat harsh and eyes staring nose dry,\\nwith an eczematous rash on his back and ears, prema-\\nturely old. What is the reason The room was in-\\nadequate the conditions were unfavorable.\\nEverything depends upon his environment.\\nThe two most important duties imposed upon you\\nas the owner of a dog, no matter what the breed, is\\nto see that he has plenty of exercise and proper food.\\nThe subject of feeding I will take up later.\\nThe limits of this paper are too small to permit of a\\nfull discussion on the different breeds of dogs, their\\ncharacteristics, etc., but this I wall say, that when the\\npossibilities do not permit of a goodly amount of ex-\\nercise, choose a small breed for your pet, and above\\nall, do not get a mongrel. There is always more sat-\\nisfaction in having a well bred dog. I think it some-\\nwhat humiliating to have to say to a friend when\\nasked, What kind of dog is that? Well, he is no\\nparticular breed, only a little mongrel. It costs no\\nmore to keep a good dog than it does a poor one, and\\nit is a great satisfaction to say that your dog is a fine\\nScottish Terrier, or a fine Blenheim Spaniel.\\nWith the increasing number of well-bred dogs the\\nfield for the qualified veterinarian who is making the\\nailments of these animals a special study and will also\\nobserve keenly the characteristics and peculiarities of\\nthe dififerent breeds, will keep on growing. The rapid\\nadvancement in science has wrought many changes in\\nthe principles and practices of canine medicine. Old\\ntheories are rapidly giving place to new ones, and the\\ncharlatan and old fashioned dog doctor are fast disap-\\npearing.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "In none of our domesticated animals can we apply\\nour system of medicine and surgery with so. much\\nprecision as in the dog. His intelligence surpasses\\nthat of any of our other dumb friends, and he often\\ncan aid us in our diagnosis. They understand much\\nmore than we chose to give them credit for. Dogs\\nare proud, emotional, dignified and feel a reprimand\\nkeenly. Observe the look on the countenance of your\\nCollie when }-ou say to him, Robin is a good dog;\\nand then say, Robin is a bad dog. I think each\\nbreed has its peculiar and particular characteristic.\\nCompare the Roman dignity of the MastifT with the\\nfrivolitv of the Fox Terrier.\\nStudy your dog s character you will profit mutually\\nby so doing. A scolding is often more effectual than\\na whipping. At any rate, try it first, and above all.\\ndon t lose your temper a little patience will often\\nwork wonders.\\nThe friend of the poor and the friend of the rich he\\nis found everywhere in the palace and in the hovel\\nloving his poor master with the same faithfulness as\\nhe does his rich one. His courage, fidelity and com-\\npanionship attach him to the human race everywhere.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "EXERCISE.\\nExercise is absolutely requisite in keeping your\\ndog in health more so in the young than in the aged.\\nCompare your neighbor s dog, which is out every day.\\nwith yours, which goes out only once in a while. Ob-\\nserve the difference in their coats, spirits, activity and\\ntheir muscular development.\\nEvery one who has a back yard can, of course, let\\nhis dog out but he soon tires of this and wants to get\\nback into the house after walking around a few times,\\nor chasing a cat off the fence.\\nIt is a good plan to teach your dog to retrieve a ball,\\nas it can be thrown from your window and he will\\nsoon learn to bring it to you. See that the rubber\\nball is not too small, as he may accidentally swallow it.\\nBreak your puppy to the lead as soon as possible,\\nand don t wait until he is a year old before you take\\nhim in the street. Let him get gradually accustomed\\nto the noises of the streets by taking him first in a\\nquiet one. Talk to him if he appears timid, and try\\nand assure him that you will protect him, calling him\\nby name frequently.\\nExcessive exercise should be avoided, such as fol-\\nlowing carriages and bicycles any great distance, par-\\nticularly in hot weather.\\nEvery lady can find time to take her dog out; and\\n1 have no hesitation in saying that if she makes it a\\nrule to take him out every morning for a walk, she\\nwill benefit him amazingly. Besides, your dog is bet-\\nter educated by going out and seeing different places\\nand objects, and getting accustomed to the noises of a\\ncity.\\n6", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Of course, it is necessary that your dog should be\\nobedient, as a disobedient dog will run a great risk in\\nbeing run over by a trolley car or bicycle. Never al-\\nlow him to cross the street .without you, and insist that\\nhe come to you when called. Remember that exercise\\nIS the most important thing you have to attend to, if\\nyou v. ish to keep your dog in health far more im-\\nportant than the question of his diet.\\nThe small, delicate breeds, such as King Charles\\nSpaniels, Japs, Blenheims and Yorkshire Terriers, if\\ntaken in the street or allowed to run in the back yard\\nwhen the weather is wet, should be thoroughly dried\\nwhen they come in, particularly in winter, as they take\\ncold very easily.\\nAs to blanketing dogs in winter, I think it wise to\\ndo so with the small, delicate breeds, such as Toy\\nBlack-and-Tans, Italian Greyhounds and Pugs, as the\\nsudden change from a warm house to the cold air is\\napt to produce coughs and colds. This precaution\\nwith dogs that have dense and long coats is not neces-\\nsarv.\\nC: -1\\n-iSiLi^.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "WASHING.\\nThis depends largely upon the breed of dog, his\\ncolor, and where and how he is kept.\\nLong-haired dogs require washing more than short-\\nhaired ones I think in summer once a week is suf-\\nficent for any breed, and in winter once every three or\\nfour weeks. Do not attempt to wash your dog on a\\nvery cold day. The water should be tepid, winter or\\nsummer; a trifle warmer in winter.\\nWhen thoroughly cleansed, he should be dried with\\ntowels, and if the weather is cold, this should be done\\nbefore a fire.\\nIn the long-haired varieties, after he is dried thor-\\noughly, brush him. It will act as a stimulent to the\\nskin and the general health will be improved. Do not\\napply it to the extent of irritation, as then more harm\\nwill be done by rendering the skin sensitive. In short-\\nhaired dogs, hand rubbing after the bath gives the\\ncoat a fine, glossy appearance.\\nAny matted hair that cannot be combed out should\\nbe cut ofif.\\nI think it a mistake to clip dogs in summer, except\\nfor some special reason, as in certain skin diseases,\\nwhen it is impossible to get the medicament on the\\nafifected parts. Some breeds never get their coats\\nback again with the same length and gloss. I have\\nnoticed this particularly in Collies and Skye Terriers,\\nand certainly flies are almost as great a nuisance to\\nthem in summer as fleas. If the coat is clipped off,\\nthey worry him much more.\\nWhenever it is possible to give your dog a swim in\\nthe sea, do so it will help him amazingly and tempo-\\nrarilv rid him of his fleas. When he is taken to the", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "seashore for the first time, do not attempt to frighten\\nhim bv throwing him in, as it will be difficult ever after\\nto get him to go in of his own accord. The dog has\\na remarkable memory, and does not forget an injustice\\nor a wrong done him as long as he lives.\\nI presume that the bath tub is the place where the\\nhouse dog gets his ablution if so, draw the water first\\nin the tub, luke warm. Immerse your dog and wet\\nhim all over before using the soap. Do not throw\\nwater in his face, and take care that the soap does not\\ncome in contact with his eyes. An ordinary nail brush\\nwill answer for the purpose of scrubbing him. Squeeze\\nthe water out of the hair, commencing at the ears and\\ngoing gradually down, while the animal has his fore\\npaws on the side of the bathtub then take him out\\nand thoroughly dry him.\\nAs to the matter of soaps, use white castile. Car-\\nbolic and other strongly medicated soaps are danger-\\nous to use on dogs, and their use should be discour-\\naged. There are many so-called dog soaps and\\nflea soaps which should never be used on a dog.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "FEEDING.\\nNinety-five per cent, of house dogs are overfed\\nnearly as great a percentage are improperly fed.\\nWhere eating is concerned, dogs have wonderful\\nsympathies the dog just fed almost to satiety, seeing\\nhis master eating, is ready to partake of any morsel\\nwhich may be olfered. They are most persistent beg-\\ngars, and the haljit once acquired is very difficult to\\nbreak. It is true that many tricks are learned at the\\nbreakfast or dinner table he will do many things for\\na dainty morsel that a whip would fail to teach.\\nHe sits for a piece of meat if he continues to sit he\\ngets another and another; and so on, really eating\\nnearly two meals in this way. These little morsels\\nthus given him have a tendency to fatten him then\\nyou don t understand how he gets so fat. Why, he\\nonly gets one meal a day Dogs should not be al-", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "lowed to frequent the dining room or kitchen. Like\\nthe cat, he will soon learn to steal, but happily, he is\\nmore easily broken of the crime than the audacious\\ncat.\\nThe kitchen frequenter is generally the fattest and\\nlaziest, getting all the scraps and dish licking and\\nthen lying by the range. A dog which is not overfed\\nwill generally be glad to eat bread. If his digestion\\nis impaired by too many sweets, he requires serious\\nattention.\\nIt may seem cruel to the indulgent mistress, but a\\nfast of twenty-four hours once in a while in dogs\\nwhich are very fat does good.\\nI thoroughly recognize the fact that some dogs will\\neat very sparingly and still continue to be fat. but this\\nis usually the case when he is getting along in years.\\nRegular and gentle exercise is needed in these cases.\\nNo house dog should be fed in quantities .sufficiently\\nlarge to satisfy him.\\nWhen a dog, heretofore a good feeder, refuses his\\nmeal, you may know he is sick do not coax him, but\\nremove the food and watch him. Ofifer it to him\\nagain in an hour, and if he still refuses it, the chances\\nare that he requires medical aid.\\nRegularity in the hour of feeding is important. It\\ndoes not matter much what time of day let it be the\\ntime most convenient for you. The regular hour once\\nestablished, he will be pretty sure to call your atten-\\ntion to it when the time comes around.\\nThe digestive powers of the dog are great, but the\\nprocess of digestion is slow.\\nAfter partaking of a full meal of meat cut up small,\\nthe digestion is active it increases until the third hour\\nand slowly decreases until the ninth, and is over at", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "the twelfth. The digestion varies with the different\\nkinds of meat. Pork is the most difficult to digest.\\nMutton is the easiest, and beef next. Bones are dif-\\nficult they are digested from the surface, and are re-\\nduced as the lime salts are dissolved. Fat is not di-\\ngested in the stomach, but passes on to the intestines\\nand is emulsified by the pancreatic juice; this is due\\nto its alkaline reaction. The gastric juice has no action\\non fat. Fatty substances are converted into an opaque\\nsubstance called chyle, and is ready for absorption.\\nThe gastric juice which is found in the stomach\\nsoftens and disintegrates the food, dissolving it this\\nprocess is called chymification.\\nOn account of the habit of dogs of bolting their\\nfood, the digestion of hydro-carbonaceous, or starchy\\nfood, is not transformed into glucose until it reaches\\nthe duodenum, or first portion of the intestine, where\\nit comes in contact with the intestinal and pancreatic\\njuices.\\nWhen from any cause the secretion of the gastric\\njuice is lessened, fermentation is easily started. This\\ncondition may occur in fevers, anemic diseases, from\\nthe effects of corrosive poisons, and in chronic catarrah\\nof the stomach.\\nAlbumin is entirely digested in the intestines. No\\ndigestion whatever takes place in the large intestines.\\nNo animal vomits more easily than the dog. Eat-\\ning too fast or violent exercise soon after a meal will\\ncause vomition. Almost all dogs are ready to re-eat\\nthe rejected matter, but if the vomiting is caused from\\nsome serious ailment this inclination is not mani-\\nfested.\\nNo organ is more variable in size than the dog s\\nstomach, because of the great differences in the size", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "of the animal, according to breed. M. Colin has\\nfound the minimum to be one and one-half pints and\\nthe maximum one and three-quarter gallons, the aver-\\nage being about two and one-half quarts. The intes-\\ntines in the dog are relatively small as compared with\\nthe stomach that is one of the reasons why the dog\\ncan fast so well.\\nIn a dog of medium size, the intestines measure\\nabout 14 feet of this, the large intestines measure\\nabout 28 inches, the coecum forms only a small spirally-\\ntwisted appendix the colon is divided into ascending,\\ntransverse and descending, and is continued directly\\nwith the rectum.\\nFoodstuffs are divisible into\\nI. Organic.\\n1. Nitrogenous, (a) albumens, (b) albuminoids (as\\ngelatin).\\n2. Non-nitrogenous, (a) carbohydrates (sugars and\\nstarches), (b) fats.\\nII. Inorganic.\\n1. Water.\\n2. Salts.\\nIt has been found by feeding experiments on dogs\\nthat they die when they lack any one of the constitu-\\nents of food. Thus, dogs fed on sugar and water die\\nalmost as soon as if they were wholly deprived of food.\\nThe dog has 42 teeth arranged as follows Six in-\\ncisors (or front teeth) in each jaw 4 canines, or large\\nteeth 8 premolars 4 molars in the upper jaw and 6\\nin the lower.\\nFront teeth, 12.\\nCanines, 4.\\nPremolars, 16.\\nMolars, 10.\\nTotal, 42.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "THE FIVE SENSES TASTING.\\n14", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "There is a great diversity of opinion as to how much\\nmeat a dog ought to get. This will depend largely\\nupon the breed of dog, his habits, age, time of the\\nyear, constitution, etc.\\nIt seems to be their natural food. They belong to\\nthe carnivorae, or flesh-eating, but domestication car-\\nries with it a multitude of sins- the sins of improper\\nfeeding. Dogs certainly have no cravings for starch)-\\nfoods; to be fed on them exclusively invites a debili-\\ntated constitution and oftimes an eczematious con-\\ndition of the skin.\\nFor a standard article of food suitable for all the\\nlarger breeds of dogs I approve of the better brands of\\ndog biscuit. Dogs require change of food as well as\\nhuman beings, and dog cakes should not be used as a\\nconstant diet. Among the various brands examined I\\nfind the Spratt s brand excellent in quality and\\nmake-up. Reliable dog food is also manufactured bv\\nAustin Graves.\\nFor small pet dogs, Spratt s pet dog biscuit is a\\nvery good article of food, alternating some days with\\nboiled rice and gravy.\\nAs a rule, boiling is not a good form of preparing\\nmeat, because it withdraws not only important salts,\\nbut proteids and the extractives nitrogenous and\\nother.\\nBeef tea is valuable chiefly because of these extrac-\\ntives, though it also contains a little gelatin, albumen\\nand fats.\\nThe law of rhythm is illustrated, both in health and\\ndisease, in striking ways in the digestive tract.\\nAn animal long accustomed to eat at a certain hour\\nof the day will experience at that time not only hun-\\nger, but other sensations, probably referable to secre-", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "tion of a certain quantity of the digestive juices and\\nto the movements that usually accompany the presence\\nof food in the alimentary tract.\\nIn the same way defecation becomes an established\\nhabit.\\nIn this way dogs are taught cleanly habits and en-\\ncouraged therein by regular attention to their needs.\\nThe blood vessels of the stomach and intestines and\\nthe villi of the latter receive the digested food for fur-\\nther elaboration (absorption). The undigested rem-\\nnant of food and the excretions of the intestines make\\nup the faeces, the latter being expelled by a series of\\nco-ordinated movements, essentially reflex in origin.\\nThe subject of diet is a very large one, but it will be\\nevident on rcffection that no average diet can be pres-\\ncribed for house dogs. But this I do say, that the\\nsmall, or toy breeds, thrive better on a restricted meat\\ndiet. As we go up in size we can afford to be a little\\nmore generous in the quantity of flesh food. It is a\\nwell known observation that dogs are more active and\\ndisplay to a greater extent their latent ferocity when\\nthey feed very largely on flesh.\\nA nitrogenous (flesh diet) increases the activity of\\nthe vital processes of the body.\\nA bowl of fresh water should always be kept where\\nthe dog can get it conveniently the use of water has a\\ngreat influence on the waste processes of the body.\\nThe old custom of putting a stick of sulphur in your\\ndog s drinking water is a superstition, sulphur being\\nperfectly insoluble in water. There are few animals in\\nwhich the denial of water is more keenly felt than in\\nthe dog.\\nIn the dog the integument, or skin, is compara-\\ntively destitute of perspiratory glands, the pulmonary", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "transpiration becomes much more active, and the\\nwatery secretion is exhaled through the lungs, as\\nwhen you see him in hot weather with his tongue pro-\\ntruded and the respirations very much quickened.\\nThe overstimulating effect of an exclusive meat diet\\nis to blame for many of the ailments of house dogs.\\nWe have seen that the two most important factors in\\nkeeping your dog in health are proper feeding and ex-\\nercise.\\nThe amount of flesh which a dog, being a carnivor-\\nous animal, can digest and use for the maintenance of\\nhis metabolic processes is enormous, though it has\\nbeen learned that ill-nourished dogs cannot, even at the\\noutset of a feeding experiment of this kind, main-\\ntain the equilibrium of their body weight on a purely\\nflesh diet. Fat being excluded, they at once com-\\nmence to lose weight, as they have to draw upon their\\nown limited store of fat.\\nFoodstuffs and the oxygen of the air are the body s\\nsources of energy.\\nNo one food can be said to be exclusively fattening,\\nheat-forming or muscle-forming.\\nIn a healthy dog we note the following conditions\\nEyes bright, nose cold and moist, except when sleep-\\ning, when it is often hot and dry, pulse ranging from\\neighty to one hundred beats per minute, varying ac-\\ncording to breed coat glossy, skin soft and easily\\nmoved color of faeces varies according to the food\\nun an exclusive meat diet it is very dark on meat and\\nfat it is dark brown on bread and milk it is clay-\\ncolored.\\nIn an impaired digestion one may see numerous\\nparticles of food which have not been acted upon by\\nthe gastric and intestinal juices.\\n\u00c2\u00bb7,", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "If the color is greenish-gray or greenish-yellow and\\nwatery, it points to some disorder of the liver.\\nThe presence of mucus indicates irritation of the in-\\ntestinal mucous membrane, often caused by worms.\\nBlood mixed with the faeces is often seen in dis-\\ntemper cases, especially in young dogs. The differ-\\nence in spirits is often the first indication w^e have of\\nsickness then loss, or partial loss, of appetite, con-\\ntinued shivering and a disposition to seek secluded\\nspots.\\ni8", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Administtation of Medicine^\\nIn nervous animals this is often a difficult matter.\\nThe pet that is usually affectionate and obedient be-\\ncomes snappish, through fear, and often in the most\\nexperienced hands it is about impossible to give him\\nhis medicine.\\nA dog suffering with enteritis (inflammation of the\\nbowels) will invariably resist all medicine, no matter\\nwho attempts to give it.\\nThe usual mode of administering a pill is to take\\nthe dog between the knees, grasp the upper jaw with\\nthe left hand, pressing the lips against the teeth, to\\nprevent the animal from closing his jaws from fear of\\ninjuring his lips, drop the pill well back of the tongue,\\nclose the mouth quickly and by gently pressing on the\\nthroat you w^ill cause him to swallow.\\nSometimes, when the animal is too obstreperous,\\nyou mav use a little deception by putting the pill in a\\nsmall piece of meat and offering it to him quickly, first\\ngiving him a piece without a pill, so as to throw him\\noff his guard. With liquids, kneel on the floor, push\\nthe animal close to you, make a funnel of the lips at\\nthe side by pulling the lips away from the teeth, and\\npour it slowly in, giving him time to swallow. If he\\nliolds it in his mouth, use the same means as directed\\nabove. When an animal is not very sick and his ap-\\npetite not much impaired, some tasteless medicines,\\nsuch as sulphur or magnesia, may be given in milk\\nor broth.\\nDo not attempt to give medicine with a bottle, as\\nthe risk of the dog breaking it with his teeth is too\\ngreat. A spoon is the most convenient. A few drugs\\ncan be administered hypodermically, but this had bet-\\nter be left to the veterinarian.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "-J_\\nNURSING*\\nBefore going into the subject of diseases, I want to\\nimpress upon my readers that good nursing is half the\\nbattle, therefore, the mistress who will attend to this\\nherself and not leave it to servants will have the satis-\\nfaction of knowing that he is being well taken care of.\\nMoreover, a dog is much less liable to resist his master\\nor mistress in administering medicine. Remember\\nthat warmth, cleanliness and regularity in giving the\\npatient his medicine is all important.\\nn you love your dog, you won t go about this in-\\ndifferently, but you v/ill take note of all the symptoms\\nas they change for better or worse. If you are giving\\nhim medicine to move his bowels, don t turn him out\\nin the back yard or street and not see that it has had\\nthe desired effect.\\nWhen it is necessary to call in a veterinarian, see\\nthat his instructions are faithfully carried out. The\\npractitioner and the nurse working together will ac-\\ncomplish much better results by their combined ef-\\nforts, and it will be a satisfaction to know that you\\nhave done your best for your pet.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Diseases of the Intestinal Tract.\\nCOLIC.\\nThis is a disease very common in dogs, more so in\\npuppies than in aduhs.\\nIn puppies it is of great significance, as it is apt to\\nlead to inflammation of the bowels. In pups the chief\\ncause is worms, but it may arise from indigestion,\\ncaused by eating too much, or from some irritating\\nsubstance which young dogs are very apt to pick up,\\nsuch as pieces of wood, coal, thread, pins, etc.\\nColicky pains sometimes accompany diarrhoea. The\\nsymptoms are Going around shifting his position\\nlooking around at the flanks uttering sharp cries or\\nmoaning, and in puppies a disposition to bite, when\\nyou attempt to lift them up.\\nThe abdomen is not always swollen, nor are there\\nany signs of fever. When taken in the lap and the\\nabdomen rubbed, the animal evinces no sign of pain\\nfrom it, but to the contrary seems to get some relief\\nand will often remain quiet while you are rubbing it.\\nIt will often be observed that the back is arched,\\nand the tail, which in health is carried up, is now de-\\npressed. A symptom which we often see in adult\\ndogs, never in young pups, is resting the fore part of\\nthe body on the ground, with the hind parts elevated.\\nThere are intervals of quiet, but they are of short du-\\nration, and if he is a much petted dog he will seek his\\nmaster or mistress and beg to be taken up. He re-\\nfuses all food, and his appearance betokens one of\\ngreat pain.\\nIf the attack is prolonged, vomiting comes on and\\nhe seeks seclusion.\\nIn puppies, when caused from worms, they usually\\nhave fits toward the last.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "It is vastly more serious in pups than in adult dogs.\\nTREATMENT.\\nThe first thing to do is to give a purgative, castor\\noil or olive oil.\\nDose for a pup, teaspoonful for adult dog, table-\\nspoonful.\\nThe best drug to relieve pain is undoubtedly mor-\\nphine dogs stand comparatively large doses of this\\ndrug. A pup will take one-eighth of a grain an\\nadult dog one-quarter. If the case has reached the\\nstage of vomiting, it must be given hypodermically.\\nEnemas of warm water assist by relieving the lower\\nbowel of fecal matter.\\nIf the disease is caused from worms, which will\\nusually be the case in young pups, it is best to ad-\\nminister a vermifuge as soon as possible. For very\\nyoung pups, pink root and senna in 15 drop doses is\\na safe drug; in older dogs, santonin and calomel, half\\ngrain of each, twice a day. If the colic is from other\\ncauses, clean out the bowels of the irritating matter.\\nCalomel in small doses, say a quarter of a grain every\\nhalf hour until two grains are taken, followed by a\\ndose of calcined magnesia, say about a teaspoonful dis-\\nsolved in water (dose for an adult dog). No solid\\nfood should be given for a few days.\\nA small quantity of soda crackers in gravy, beef tea\\nor milk must be the diet for two or three days. When\\nyou return to solid food, one grain of lacta ted pepsin,\\nmixed with the food, will be advisable.\\nThe food must be given in small quantities and\\noften. Do not allow any bones. Potatoes are indi-\\ngestible.\\nChicken bones should never be given to dogs. They\\nare very dangerous. Remember this particularly.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Inflammation of the Bowels.\\nThis disease is often a sequel to colic. It is caused\\nby exposure, poisons of an irritant nature, blows in\\nthe abdomen, impaction of fecal matter and the lodg-\\nment of foreign substances which the dog has swal-\\nlowed. In this disease the animal is very morose he\\nseeks seclusion the tail is held firmly down eyes\\nhave a dull expression urine scanty and high colored\\nthe abdomen is tucked up and sensitive to pressure,\\nand he walks slowly.\\nVomiting is not always an accompaniment. The\\nbreathing is somewhat characteristic, the abdominal\\nmuscles are tense, and the thoracic, or chest, muscles\\nare brought more into play. This is to relieve the\\npain. The pupils are dilated, nose hot and dry, appe-\\ntite completely lost, and the breath is offensive. Some\\nbreeds of dogs will cry and moan, such as terriers and\\nsome other small varieties, but the author has found\\nthat the large breeds, such as St. Bernards, Great\\nDanes, Mastiffs, etc., sufifer without making any cries.\\nAs the disease progresses there is a marked disin-\\nclination to take any medicine, a symptom more pro-\\nnounced in this affection than in any other that I know\\nof.\\nIn simple colic there is no fever in enteritis the tem-\\nperature may run up to 104 deg. Fah.\\nThere is usually great thirst, particularly if there\\nare gastric disturbances, that is if the stomach is also\\ninvolved.\\nIt is a very fatal disease in pups.\\nTREATMENT.\\nOlive oil should be administered I prefer it to cas-\\ntor oil. Small doses of calomel. Say, for a Fox Ter-", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "rier, one-quarter of a grain every fifteen minutes until\\none grain is taken follow it up with a little olive oil.\\nTo quiet pain, morphine, one-quarter of a grain. If\\nnot relieved in two hours, administer one-eighth of a\\ngrain more. Warm appHcations to the abdomen assist\\nsomewhat in relieving pain do not use mustard, it\\nonly irritates the animal.\\nIf there is diarrhoea, sulpho-carbolate of zinc in half-\\ngrain doses four times a day. If the animal will eat,\\ngive him eggs, freshly-made beef tea or a little scraped\\nmeat, on which you have put a little pepsin. Ofifer\\nhim only small quantities at a time.\\nColic and enteritis resemble each other in many of\\ntheir symptoms.\\nInflammation of the bowels may be distinguished\\nfrom colic in being more gradual in its approach. The\\nnose is hot and dry, and there is fever and shivering\\nand a disposition to lay in a cool place. In colic there\\nis no pain on pressure of the abdomen in inflamma-\\ntion this causes pain.\\nIt is difficult for the non-professional to make a dif-\\nferential diagnosis, but it will be always safe to com-\\nmence with an oleagenous purge, sweet oil or castor\\noil.\\nIt is an extremely grave disease, and if the readei\\nhas any suspicions that he h s a case of inflammation\\nof the bowels to deal with I think that he will be well\\nadvised to call in a competent veterinarian to take\\ncharge of the case.\\n\u00c2\u00bb4", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE FIVE SENSES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SMELLING.\\n25", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "WORMS.\\nPerhaps there is no disorder the dog is heir to which\\ncauses so much destruction as worms. I do not think\\nit an exaggeration when I say that ninety per cent, of\\nah pups are infested with parasites. There is no dis-\\norder which manifests so many symptoms in the dog.\\nThey may be prominent or obscure.\\nThe reader will ask, How can I find out that my\\ndog has worms Give him a vermifuge and watch\\nhim closely. Examine the passages carefully if any\\nare passed alive they will be easily seen, but if they\\nare dead it is not always easy to detect them.\\nThe most common symptoms denoting worms in\\ndogs are bloating (mostly seen in pups), indigestion,\\ncolic, developing into inflammation of the bowels, dia-\\nrhoea, vomiting, a voracious appetite with little bene-\\nfit to the animal nose hot and dry, a persistent cough,\\nwhich has not yielded to the ordinary remedies a\\nrough, dry, harsh coat and loss of hair around the eyes\\nthey frequently have a dull, lustreless appearance\\npupils somewhat enlarged.\\nWhen they irritate the rectum and anus, the animal\\nwill drag himself along the floor.\\nFully ninety-five per cent, of the cases of colic in\\npups from six weeks to nine months old are caused by\\nworms.\\nWorms and distemper kill more young dogs than\\nall the other diseases put together.\\nThe nervous system is sometimes profoundly af-\\nfected by these parasites the reflexes in the dog are\\nextremely sensitive, and we sometimes see paralysis,\\nchorea and convulsions.\\nThe paralysis due to this cause is rarely permanent,\\nbut disappears when the cause is removed. In the", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "small varieties of clogs, such as Japs, King Charles\\nSpaniels, Toy Terriers, etc., we often have epileptic\\nspasms and great excitement. The animal runs\\naround the room, tries to climb up the wall, and keeps\\nup an incessant barking. If you attempt to handle\\nhim he will endeavor to bite you. These are the\\nsymptoms which call forth in your imagination the\\nterribly dreaded mad dog. During this stage your\\nfirst duty is to restrain the animal and prevent him\\nfrom striking his head as he ntshes around the room\\ntry and throw a blanket over him and place him as\\nsoon as possible in a quiet, d?.rk place wetting his\\nhead often does good.\\nIt is rather dangerous while the excitement is on to\\nattempt to give him medicine. But do not fail as soon\\nas the attack is over to dose him for worms.\\nWe must not put absolute dependence in any one\\nremedy.\\nBefore administering your vermifuge, the animal\\nshould first be fasted verv yoimg pups, three hours\\none of six months old, six hours for older dogs,\\ntwelve to twenty-four hours. Some vermifuges have\\na purgative effect those that do not ought to be fol-\\nlowed up with a dose of castor or olive oil.\\nDon t use castor oil for very young puppies.\\nThe worm most commonly found in pups is the\\nround worm. It is white, or yellowish white. In\\nsome instances large masses of these parasites collect\\nin a ball and cause very alarming symptoms.\\nWhen in considerable quantities, they may be found\\nin the vomited material.\\nThe name of these worms is ascaris mystax. Worms\\nare frequently taken by the pups from the mother.\\nI will give an instance\\n27", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "J A Japanese Spaniel bitch which I bred and did not\\ntake the precaution to give vermifuges to before pup-\\nping. I found when the pups were three weeks old\\nthat she had intestinal parasites. The pups subse-\\nquently showed unmistakable evidences of them the\\nmother would naturally have a little excrementitious\\nmatter adhering to the long hair, and the young, in\\nlicking and nosing around her, evidently swallowed\\nsome of the ova, or eggs.\\nSo that it is very important in breeding dogs to\\ntake the precaution to have the bitch free from them, if\\npossible.\\nThe most deadly worm to the dog is the taenia, or\\ntape- worm.\\nThere are four varieties of this worm.\\nTaenia-serrata, so called as the edges of the worm\\nare serrated, or saw-like.\\nToeni^-marginata. The segments are nearly\\nsquare. This is the largest of the tape worms.\\nTaenia Coenurus. This loenia is rarely found in the\\ndog.\\nTaenia Echinococcus. This taenia is the smallest\\nand resembles in shape a cucumber, sometimes called\\ntoenia cucumerina. It is the most deadly of all the\\ntaenia.\\nThere are many taemafuges recommended, but I\\nwould give preference to the ethereal extract of male\\nfern.\\nIt is best given in the morning on an empty stom-\\nach, from five to thirty drops, according to size and\\nage of the dog it is well to administer it in a little olive\\noil.\\nThis dose must be repeated again in a day or two.\\nA little animal charcoal on your puppies food is very\\noften a benefit in relieving indigestion, and it also has", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "a slight vermifuge action. Dose for pups, one-fourth\\nteaspoonful. given for a week.\\nButtermilk has been recommended by some, but the\\nauthor has had no experience with it. I cannot im-\\npress upon my readers too strongly the necessity of\\nfreeing their dogs of worms, when we see the train of\\ndisorders which follow from the existence of these\\nparasites and the fearuful death rate consequent to\\nthem.\\nPrescription for round worms (pups).\\nR. Santorim, grs. iii.\\nOlive oil, oz. ss.\\nDivide in three doses, one each morning.\\nR. Tape worm (pups).\\nFilix mass, gtts xx.\\nOlive oil, iii. oz.\\nThree doses, one each morning.\\nThese doses can be doubled for older dogs.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Abdominal Dmpsy.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ascites*\\nThis is a collection of serous liquid in the abdominal\\ncavity.\\nIt is not a disease, per se, but a symptom of some\\nother disease.\\nThe amount of liquid varies considerably.\\nThe author has removed as much as two and one-\\nhalf quarts from a poodle.\\nThis fluid is thin and watery, slightly sticky and\\npink in color.\\nIt is usually consecutive to some disease of the heart\\nor liver seldom in the dog from the kidneys it may\\nalso appear from local diseases of the peritoneum.\\nIt is more often a transudate than inflanmiatory\\nexudate in the dog.\\nThe symptoms are a presence of fluid in the abdomi-\\nnal cavity. When the quantity is small it is not easily\\ndetermined.\\nWhen the quantity is considerable, by pressing the\\nabdomen with both hands and shaking it while the\\nanimal is in a standing position the sound of the fluid\\ncan be easily heard.\\nAgain, the abdomen sags down, bringing the back\\ndown slightly, and the flanks have a sunken appear-\\nance.\\nAs a rule, the prognosis is unfavorable. The au-\\nthor had a case which recovered after being tapped\\nfour times. The animal was four years old, and had\\nbeen up to that time a vigorous, healthy dog.\\nThe cause was referable to the heart and liver, car-\\ndiac cirrhosis.\\nWith powerful diuretics and liver stimulants he\\nmade a splendid recovery.\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0io", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "No home treatment should be attempted in this dis-\\nease it must be left in the hands of the (jualified veter-\\ninarian.\\nPfolaps of the Rectum.\\nThis condition is due to a relaxed condition of the\\nrectal mucous membrane and excessive straining from\\nconstipation or diarrhoea. It is more often seen in\\nyoung dogs.\\nWhen the bowel is prolapsed we find vmder the tail\\na sausage-like body protruding from the anus. It is\\ncongested. The end of this protuberance is slightly\\nindented, and the finger can be introduced in this in-\\ndentation.\\nThe first thing to do is to try and return the bowel\\nby using gentle pressure elevate the hind quarters\\nslightly when so doing.\\nIf the protrusion is much swollen, bathe with cold\\nwater.\\nThe animal must be kept quiet, and if the trouble is\\ncaused from diarrhoea give opium, and if from consti-\\npation give a saline purge. This disease must not be\\nmistaken for piles.\\nPILES.\\nThis disease is usually seen in old dogs. The anus\\nhas a swollen, congested appearance it may be very\\nsensitive, or it may be comparatively free from pain.\\nSometimes there is a little bleeding, and the mucous\\nmembrane is slightly protruded.\\nThis disease is seen more in pugs at least, that has\\nbeen my experience.\\nThis disease may be due to biliousness, an inactive\\nliver, and to habitual constipation and overfeeding.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "The treatment is to give a mild saline laxative do\\nnot purge. Bathe with cold water, or a wash made of\\nthirty grains tannic acid to the ounce of water, or to\\nsmear the p rts with an ointment made of vaseline,\\ntannic acid r.nd opium.\\nChronic Irritable Cough*\\nChronic laryngitis results generally from an acute\\nattack. It comes on gradually. The larnyx, or upper\\nportion of the windpipe, is slightly sensitive to pres-\\nsure.\\nThe cough is dry and hoarse it is quite loud and\\naccompanied with a wheezing sound. It is always\\nworse at night, the animal, when laying still, is usually\\neasy, but any quick exertion excites a fit of coughing.\\nAs soon as his master comes in, the excitement and\\nexertion which he takes is always productive of a vio-\\nlent fit of coughing, sometimes resembling the whoop-\\nmg cough of children. As a rule, treatment is very\\nunsatisfactory, but it will depend on the age of the\\ndog, young animals having a much greater chance of\\nrecovery.\\nInhalations are rather hard to administer to the dog,\\nthe only way this can be accomplished is to put him in\\na box and place the medication in, compelling him to\\nbreathe it. The vapor of tar and salt, put in the hot\\nwater, are useful.\\nAmong the drugs used are morphine, particularly at\\nnight, when the coughing is apt to prevent you from\\nsleeping. It may be given in quarter grain doses.\\nSyrup hydriodic acid in doses of five drops, diluted\\nwith water. External counter irritation with mustard\\nor painting the throat with tincture of iodine.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PNEUMONIA.\\nThis is an inflammation of the lung tissue, with an\\nexudation into the air cells, which become filled with\\nthis exuded matter, to the exclusion of air. The af-\\nfected portion has the appearance of liver.\\nPneumonia may affect a portion of a lung, or one\\nentire lung, or both. When both lungs are afifected\\na so-called bi-lateral pneumonia it becomes very\\ngrave.\\nIf the progress of the disease is favorable, the exu-\\ndate is removed by absorption and the diseased lung\\nreturns to its normal condition.\\nWhile exposure to cold is an evident cause of pneu-\\nmonia, the pneumonic process, as we see it, from the\\nmoment of invasion to the crisis, implies infection by\\nthe agency of a microbe called the pneumococcus.\\n33", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "The invasion o{ the disease is often abrupt; it is\\nusually ushered in with a chill. The animal shivers\\nand seeks warmth. The eyes are usually red and the\\nnose hot and dry but this is not a constant symptom.\\nThe respirations are accelerated. The cough, which\\nusually accompanies the disease, is short and sup-\\npressed. As the disease progresses, we find a rusty-\\nlooking discharge from the nostrils.\\nWhen one lung is affected the animal will lie down,\\nbut when both are involved he usually assumes the\\nsitting posture, and the corners of the mouth go out\\nand in with each expiration and inspiration.\\nBy placing the fingers over the lungs, and then with\\nthe fingers of the other hand striking them (percus-\\nsion) you will get a dull sound, as of something solid\\nunderneath.\\nIf you place your ear close to his nose you will\\nhear a snoring sound.\\nThe temperature often goes up to 104 or 105 deg.\\nFah.\\nThe course of the disease usually runs about three\\nweeks.\\nTREATMENT.\\nMake a jacket to fit snugly around the animal of\\nsome woolen goods rub on some mustard to the sides.\\nIf the mustard worries the patient too much, use the\\njacket only, with some cotton batten underneath.\\nCommence by giving small doses of calomel say,\\none-eighth of a grain every fifteen minutes until one\\ngrain is taken.\\nStrychnine in doses of one-sixtieth of a grain three\\ntimes a day. For the fever, acetanilid in doses of\\nthree grains and for a stimulant, whisky, a teaspoon-\\nful diluted six times, three times a dav.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "If the cough is distressing, you will have to give\\nmorphine, one-eighth to one-quarter of a grain.\\nThe patient must have small and often repeated\\nquantities of raw chopped meat and all the milk he\\nwants.\\nIf his nose is dry and cracked, keep it well greased\\nwith vaseline.\\nI do not advise inhalations, as the struggling of the\\nanimal in attempting to give them does more harm\\nthan good.\\nCare must be taken that the animal does not get in\\ndraughts or allowed to go out in the cold.\\nPneumonia is a very serious disease and is often\\nfatal.\\nThis is a disease which had better be left to the\\nqualified veterinarian.\\nDISTEMPER.\\nThis is an acute, specific, infectious and contagious\\ndisease, characterized by febrile symptoms, which are\\ngenerally followed in a few days by a discharge from\\nthe eyes and nostrils.\\nWhen and how this disease first originated is not\\nknown. It is supposed to arise only from contagion.\\nIt was first seen in England in 1763. Of all the dis-\\neases which the dog is heir to, distemper is the most\\ndreaded, it being extremely fatal, particularly in young\\ndogs the average mortality being about 60 per cent.\\nIt is far more prevalent in large kennels than in\\ncities. A dog once afifected enjoys immunity from\\nfurther attacks, as a rule.\\nDistemper is a disease peculiar to young dogs, as\\nmeasles and scarlatina are to children; but old dogs\\n35", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "are by ilo means exempt from it. Youngf animals are\\nmore susceptible than adults to most infectious dis-\\neases.\\nIt has been asserted that a dog must contract the\\ndisease. This assertion has not been proven. In\\ninfectious diseases the food supplied by the body in\\nthe blood and tissues must be suitable to germ life\\nor to a given germ s peculiar disease-producing\\npower or there is no disease. Let us picture the de-\\nvelopment of distemper in dogs.\\nThe disease germ reaches the mucous membrane\\nof the respiratory tract by the usual modes of infec-\\ntion, attach themselves and multiply. This stage is\\nsymptomless.\\nThe local inflammatory processes produced by the\\nmicrobes, that is, the typical symptoms, may come\\nto the front, as coryza, sneezing, cough or the symp-\\ntoms of the toxic action of the microbes, may pre-\\ndominate, as great muscular weakness and general\\nprostration, with nervous excitement.\\nSymptoms\\nDullness, loss of spirits, impaired appetite, shiver-\\ning and feverishness, sneezing, sometimes cough, run-\\nning at the eyes and dread of light; later on a thick\\nyellow discharge from the eyes and nostrils, the ani-\\nmal seeks warmth, a disinclination to move about. As\\nthe disease progresses, we see small red spots on the\\ninside of the thighs and belly, which become later on\\nfilled with pus. They are the size of a small pea,\\nfinally dry up and form scabs.\\nThe discharge from the nostrils has a sickening\\nodor, in fact, the peculiar odor which a distemper dog\\nhas is of great diagnostic value. There is no visible\\nincrease in the respirations.\\n36", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "1. Symptoms in the digestive tract: There is vomit-\\ning of thin hquid, sometimes bile the discharge from\\nthe bowels are very offensive and are occasionally\\nstreaked v^-ith blood and accompanied with straining\\nthe abdomen is sometimes painful on pressure and is\\ncontracted.\\n2. Symptoms in the eyes There is more or less a\\npurulent discharge, which crusts on the borders of\\nthe eyelids, frequently gluing them together. This\\nsecretion is apt to complicate matters, causing a\\nkeratitis or inflammation of the cornea, which may de-\\nvelop into an ulcer and destroy the eye.\\n3. Symptoms of the respiratory apparatus There\\nis generally a catarrhal inflammation of the upper air\\npassages.\\nThe first symptom is catarrh of the nostrils, which\\nis indicated by sneezing and the animal rubbing his\\nnose with his front paws. This discharge increases\\nas the disease advances it is sometimes bloody and\\nmore or less purulent, with a fetid odor.\\nIn all cases there is a catarrh of the larynx and\\nbronchi.\\nThis is accompanied by a loud, hoarse cough, which\\nis distressing, particularly at night. As the inflam-\\nmatory process reaches the bronchi the breathing be-\\ncomes qvtickened, and if it reaches the l^roncheoles\\npneumonia is the result.\\n4. Symptoms of the digestive tract There is catarrh\\nof the stomach, with vomiting and entire loss of ap-\\npetite.\\nThe discharges from the bowels are thin and very\\nfoul smelling, occasionally tinged with blood.\\n5. Symptoms of the nervous system When these\\nsymptoms appear early in the attack the case is usually", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "hopeless. The animal may be dull, noticing very lit-\\ntle, or there may be great excitement, nervousness,\\ngreat restlessness, and even delirium (howling). Motor\\ndisturbances, such as twitching of the muscles, are\\nnoticed, and in some cases, convulsions, or fits.\\nChamping of the jaws are sometimes seen, with foam\\nor saliva on the lips.\\nUnsteadiness in gait, and loss of power behind\\n(paralysis). The bladder and bowels lose their con-\\ntrol and the urine and faeces are evacuated involun-\\ntarily.\\nThe nervous symptoms usually come to the front\\nwhen the animal is weak, and poorly fed, during den-\\ntition, and when the sexual changes are taking place\\nand the nervous system previously affected by worms.\\nThe foregoing symptoms will show how completely\\nthe whole body is affected in this disease. The small\\nSpaniel class succumb very quickly to this disease the\\nTerriers stand it better. We sometimes have distem-\\nper with a mild termination. The most distressing\\nsequel to distemper in Chorea. The death rate in\\ncities is about 60 per cent.\\nTREATMENT.\\nThere is no specific treatment for distemper that is,\\nthere is no drug which can destroy the micro-organ-\\nisms in this disease.\\nHaving satisfied yourself that you have a case of\\ndistemper to deal with, commence by giving small re-\\npeated doses of calomel, say for a Fox Terrier one-\\neighth grain every fifteen minutes until he has taken\\none grain. Follow with a little magnesia for the\\nfever, acetanilid, in two grain doses, four times a day.\\nStrychnine tablets, one-sixtieth grain, three times a\\nday, to restrain cardiac and respiratory enervation.\\n38", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE FIVE SENSES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 HEARING.\\n39", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "(This dose of strychnine for adult dog of Terrier\\nsize.) Salicylate of soda, two grains, three to four\\ntimes a day.\\nIf there is diarrhoea, sulpho-carbolate of zinc, one\\ngrain three or four times a day. It will be a good\\nplan to give this drug even if there is no diarrhoea,\\nbut in smaller doses, say half grain two or three times\\na day. For nervous excitement give morphine, one-\\nfourth grain, or bromide of soda in fifteen-grain doses.\\nKeep the eyes and nostrils clean with a solution of\\nboric acid.\\nCrive the animal a warm place do not let him get\\nwet and feed with beef tea, milk, peptonized puppy\\nfood, and in some cases you may have to give raw\\nmeat, cut up fine; this is when there is great emacia-\\ntion and a disinclination for anything else. The anti-\\nseptic line of treatment seems the most rational in\\nthis disease therefore, the calomel and sulpho-carbo-\\nlate of zinc are two important drugs. Creosote is\\nanother useful drug in this disease, given in tablet\\nform, each tablet containing one-half minim.\\nDuring convalescence give a tonic of strychnine,\\niron and quinine, a tablet containhig the following\\ntwice a day\\nR. Reduced iron, gr T.\\nStrych. sulph., gr 1-60.\\nOuinine, gr. i.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "LARYNGITIS.\\nThis is a catarrh of the larynx or upper portion of\\nthe windpipe.\\nThe symptoms are a hoarse barking cough shght\\npressure on the larynx will cause the animal to cough\\nrunning and excitement will bring on a fit of cough-\\ning; we may sometimes hear a wheezing and rattling\\nsound. The animal is slightly depressed and eats\\nslowly laryngitis is always accompanied by a certain\\namount of pharyngitis or sore throat. The majority\\nof cases respond readily to treatment, but a few will\\nbecome chronic.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "TREATMENT.\\nKeep the animal from draughts apply counter-irri-\\ntation to the throat, ammonia liniment or mustard.\\nCodeine in one-quarter grain doses three times a day.\\nBRONCHITIS.\\nThis is a catarrh of the bronchial tubes, caused by\\ncold. We see it often in dogs which lie near the\\nstove and get very warm and then go out into the cold\\nair; it is often seen as a complication of distemper.\\nIn old chronic cases there is a thickening of the tubes.\\nSymptoms Chills, indifiference, fever and cough are\\nthe chief symptoms. Pressure on the chest will im-\\nmediately cause a fit of coughing. The cough is weak\\nand the expectoration frothy the eyes are red, nose\\nhot and dry, indicating fever.\\nThe cheeks are inflated with each inspiration. If\\nthe inflammation extends to the bronchioles (capillary\\nbronchitis) it is very serious.\\nTREATMENT.\\nKeep the animal in a warm place free from draughts.\\nIn the early stages mild expectorants as wild cherry\\nor tolu for the fever, acetanilid, in 3-grain doses twice\\na day.\\nFor the cough the following prescription may prove\\nserviceable\\nR Codienoe gr. iv.\\nAc. hydrocyan. dil 9 ii-\\nAm. Chlorid 9 ii.\\nSyr. Pruni Virg. ad ii.\\nTeaspoonful every three or four hours.\\n42", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "w\\nx ?i^\\nrx\\n^N\\nASTHMA.\\nThis disease is mostly seen in old dogs. It is a se-\\nquel to acute bronchitis, but it may appear independ-\\nently of the acute stage.\\nSymptoms Difficult respiration, which is increased\\nby exercise or excitement, and is accompanied by a se-\\nvere attack of coughing and sometimes symptoms of\\nchoking.\\nThe cough is moist and rattling and the breath is\\nsometimes fetid.\\nThe cough is always worse at night but in the\\ndaytime, when the animal is still, it is usually free from\\nparoxysms of coughing.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Inhalations of medicated vapors are sometimes use-\\nful, as turpentine or tar. Bromide of arsenic, i-ioo,\\nthree times a day. Morphia hydrochlorate at night,\\ndose, one-quarter grain. Nitroglycerin, i-ioo grain,\\nwhen there are symptoms of choking. Keep the\\nbowels regular.\\nThe prognosis in old dogs is unfavorable.\\nEpileptic Fits, or Epileptiform Gjnvwisions.\\nThese are chiefly due to reflex irritation. They\\noccur mostly in young animals. In acute attacks the\\nsymptoms begin suddenly, or they may start with\\nslight premonitory symptoms.\\nThe animal looks around in a staring way, then\\nstarts to run, howling or barking, trying to climb up\\nthe wall, or get into a corner or he may fall into con-\\nvulsions. The muscles of mastication are especially\\naffected the saliva which lies in the mouth is turned\\ninto foam he lies on his side and the muscles of the\\nneck are drawn sideways or backwards. After a few\\nminutes the twitchings stop, the animal lies on the\\nground for some time, finally gets up, looks around\\nin a bewildered way, and staggers to a corner..\\nThe duration of these attacks varies, some lasting\\nonly a few minutes, but severe attacks may last one or\\ntwo hours, and recurring again after a short time. The\\nslightest excitement will renew the attacks.\\nWhen one fit succeeds another in rapid succession\\nthe prognosis is unfavorable.\\nSometimes after the convulsions are over the animal\\nremains in a delirious condition for som? time, moan-\\ning or crying.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "He does not seem to recognize his master s voice\\nthe pupils are somewhat enlarged, and his gums have\\na somewhat whiter look than usual.\\nThe causes are worms, dentition, constipation, sud-\\nden fear, excitement, indigestion. These fits are some-\\ntimes seen in distemper, a symptom which indicates\\na grave prognosis.\\nTREATMENT.\\nIf possible, promptly restrain the animal apply cold\\nwater to the head by holding him under the faucet\\nwrap his body up with some warm material and place\\nhim in a quiet, dark place. Morphine, in doses suf-\\nficiently large to quiet all excitement, or perhaps bet-\\nter, morphine and atropine, say of the former one-quar-\\nter grain, the latter 1-200; glonin in i-ioo grain doses\\nis also useful. It is well to move the bowels as soon\\nas possible with calomel. The diet must be light and\\nunstimulating for a few days, and the animal kept as\\nquiet as possible. In the after treatment it is our\\nduty to seek for and remove the cause.\\nIf from worms, the speedier they are removed the\\nbetter. The two causes most frequently met with are\\nintestinal obstruction and worms.\\nInflammation of the Brain.\\nInflammation of the brain is primarily a result of\\nsome traumatism, as blows on the head, sunstroke and\\noverexertion.\\nThe inflammation may afifect the brain substance or\\nthe covering of the brain (pachymeningitis).\\nSymptoms. The animal is excited, he runs aim-\\nlessly about and is fretful and irritable. He whines\\n45", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "and howls constantly. The head is hot, the eyes red\\nand pupils contracted, the appetite is lost, and we may\\nhave diarrhoea or constipation and vomiting.\\nAs the disease progresses he becomes apathetic and\\nsleepy. In this condition he may continue until he\\ndies, or he may have acute convulsions.\\nThere is a tendency to walk in a circle and the front\\nlegs are lifted rather higher than usual. In the pe-\\nriods of quietness we may observe automatic move-\\nments of the legs and twitching of the lips. The tem-\\nperature is little altered. The breathing is rattling and\\nstertorous. Toward the end there is paralysis, partial\\nor general.\\nAnother pronounced symptom is the appearance of\\nblindness, the animal not seeming to avoid obstacles.\\nbut when the hand is brought near to the eyes he will\\nwink. The peculiar symptom of walking around in\\na circle and unsteadiness of gait is when the cerebellum\\nor posterior portion of the brain is affected.\\nThe author has just treated a cat with the cerebel-\\nlum affected. Hyociamine was prescribed with good\\nresults counter-irritation was also used at the back of\\nthe neck.\\nSpinal Meningfitis.\\nThe cause of this disease may be traced to injuries\\nto the spine, violent blows, shocks, falls from windows,\\netc.\\nOccasionally we see this symptom in distemper.\\nThe symptoms appear slowly or quickly, according\\nto the irritation present. If the spinal cord is much\\ninvolved by the exudation, we find complete paralysis,\\nposterior to that portion of the spine affected.\\nSymptoms. The patient is heavy and dull, with a\\nstaggering gait, finally dragging his hind legs. When\\n46", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "placed upon their legs they drop sideways on their\\nhind quarters. If the parrdysis is complete, we must\\nlook for the injury in the cervical region (or region of\\nthe neck). If a pin be used to the paralyzed mem-\\nbers there is usually no sensitiveness. Coldness is\\nanother symptom. There is often complete paralysis\\nor loss of power to control the urine, and there is a\\ndifficulty in the passage of faecal matter. The paralyzed\\nmembers become atrophied from want of use.\\nConsciousness is not at all impaired, and the appe-\\ntite remains fairly good.\\nThe prognosis is usually unfavorable, and when re-\\ncovery does take place it is veiy slow.\\nTreatment consists in counter-irritation to the spine\\nas biniodide of mercury or mustard oil, and strychnine\\nin increasing doses, commencing with 1-50 grain three\\ntimes a day, incrc sed gradually to 1-30. Iodide of\\npotash may be used in conjunction with the strych-\\nnine. Electricity may be tried.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "CHOREA.\\n(ST. Virus s DANCE.)\\nThis disease is often seen as a sequel to distemper.\\nIt is a persistent clonic convulsion of some group of\\nmuscles, mostly seen in the anterior extremities and\\nhead. These twitchings are regular and rhythmical, as\\nan automatic opening and closing of the mouth or\\ncontractions of the ears, an undulating motion of the\\nbody, sometimes a lateral motion one or both legs\\nmay be affected, or all four extremities.\\nThe choreic movements lessen during sleep, but do\\nnot entirely cease.\\nSensitiveness nd consciousness are not disturbed in\\nthe least.\\nThe appetite is usually good and the animal appears\\nhappy.\\nBut the sight of a dog so aflV.cted to most people is\\npainful.\\nWhen a small group of muscles are affected there is\\na possibility of the disease disappearing, but when\\nlarge groups are involved and it appears in both legs,\\nwith an undulating motion of the body (a bilateral\\nchorea), the case is hopeless.\\nThe author has tried the various drugs recom-\\nmended, but with little or no success.\\nA tonic of strychnine, iron and arsenic, with a liberal\\ndiet and rest, may somewhat mitigate the symptoms.\\nThe drugs which have been tried are Oxide of\\nzinc, gr. four times a day macrotin, gr. three\\ntimes a day; zinc valerianate, gr. three times a day;\\nfluid extract gelsemium, three drops three times a day:\\nFowler s solution arsenic, three to five drops three\\ntimes a day, gradually increasing the dose to ten drops\\nthree times a day. Arsenic must be used with great\\ncaution.\\n^8", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "PARALYSIS.\\nParalysis may be general, or partial, as paraplegia\\n(half of the body), usually the hind extremities. Paraly-\\nsis from an injury is generally posterior to that portion\\nof the spinal cord which is injured. A paralysis known\\nas reflex paralysis, not due to injury of the cord or\\nbrain, may arise from constipation, distended bladder,\\nworms, old age and debility. Paralysis of the lower\\njaw, considered by some as a sign of rabies, is some-\\ntimes seen. It may be due to injuries to the head, in\\nwhich the trifacial nerve is the seat of injury. This\\nnerve supplies the lower jaw with motion.\\nI do not consider this symptom especially one of\\nrabies. All the cases which I have seen were due to\\nsome traumatism the animals were certainly not af-\\nfected with rabies.\\nParalyzed muscles always atrophy or diminish in\\nsize there is frequently anaesthesia, or want of sensa-\\ntion, and coldness.\\nAtaxia, or a want of co-ordination, may be classed\\nas a paralysis.\\nThe animal is unsteady in gait, staggers from one\\nside to another, and walking is irregular. The portion\\nof the brain affected which causes these symptoms is\\nthe cerebellum. Ataxia occurs very often as a result\\nof distemper. When the paralysis is due to reflex irri-\\ntation, the cause being removed, the patient very often\\ngets well.\\nI will cite one remarkable case\\nA Bull Terrier about four years old was paralyzed\\nin the posterior extremities the paralvsis gradually\\nextended until the whole body was affected. The cause\\nwas sought for and found in the rectum, which was", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "firmly impacted with straw. The only way to account\\nfor the animal getting straw into his intestines was\\nthat the owner was in the habit of throwing bones into\\nhis kennel, which had straw, and the animal grad-\\nually took small quantities of it until a mass sufficiently\\nlarge had accumulated to cause obstruction.\\nWith injections of warm water and a pair of forceps\\nI was able to remove the mass.\\nThe paralysis was now general he lay on his side,\\nperfectly helpless sensation was absent in the pos-\\nterior extremities as far as the hocks. Appetite was\\ngood and he was apparently free from pain.\\nThe treatment consisted in the administration of\\ntincture of nux vomica, commencing with three-drop\\ndoses three times a day until doses of ten drops three\\ntimes a day were reached. The Faradic battery was\\nused once a day and the bowels kept open witii fluid\\nextract cascara sagrada.\\nRecovery was complete in four weeks from the time\\nI first saw him.\\nIn a one-sided paralysis (hemiplegia) the injury is\\nalways on the opposite side to the seat of injury. This\\nparalysis is very uncommon in dogs, as it is due to\\nsome lesion within the cavity of the cranium but\\nwhen this paralysis is due to a lesion of the sp nal cord\\nthe paralysis of motion is on the same side of the body\\nand that of sensibility on the other side.\\nIt is easy to see how paralysis of the lower jaw and\\ntongue from an injury to the head can take place, as the\\ntrifacial nerve sends a branch which supplies the most\\npowerful muscles of mastication, the temporal and\\nmasseter, and the nerve known as the hypoglossal sup-\\nplies the tongue with energy. The tongue, lips and\\nlarynx may be afTected swallowing may be also im-\\n50", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "paired. These are the so-called cases of dumb rabies\\nwhich are conjured up in the imagination of the timid\\nowner and ignorant veterinarian. The voice of the\\ndog is impaired from debility of the laryngeal muscles,\\nand in advanced cases no vocal sound can be pro-\\nduced, hence the symptom which influences the minds\\nof the credulous, The animal is dumb\\nI will make a few remarks on the subject of rabies\\nin another chapter.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "Inflammation of the Liver,\\n(HEPATITIS.)\\nThis disease appears in two forms, acute and\\nchronic.\\nAcute inflammation of the liver accompanies vari-\\nous infectious diseases in distemper this organ is often\\ninvolved.\\nThe symptoms are catarrh of the stomach, pain on\\npressure in the region of the liver, which lies on the\\nright side, and jaundice, the mucous membranes of the\\neyes and mouth being colored yellow.\\nWe often have the chronic stage accompanying\\nvalvular disease of the heart.\\nThe disease generally starts without any visible\\nsymptoms.\\nIt is more often seen in old dogs which have been\\npampered.\\nWhen the disease becomes pretty well advanced we\\nfind evidences of an interference in the portal circula-\\ntion by the appearance of dropsy and chronic catarrh\\nof the stomach.\\nWhen we get a yellow coloration of the eyes and\\nmouth it is due to interference in the passage of bile\\nfrom the gall-bladder. The disease is very slow, but\\nends fatally, and when dropsy of the abdomen and\\nlegs appears the end is not far otY. The treatment\\nconsists in opening the bowels with a saline purga-\\ntive and vegetable diet.\\nHyosciamine, 1-150 gr. three or four times a day.\\nSuccinate of soda, 2 to 5 grs. three times a day, and\\nslight counter-irritation to the right side.\\nI wnll also mention that kicks on the side may bring\\non an inflammation of the liver. We also see these\\nsymptoms in acute phosphorus poisoning.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Diseases of the Heart,\\n(Valvular.)\\nValvular defects appear in two forms when the\\nvalves close imperfectly and when tlie openings ap-\\npear contracted. Imperfect closing of one valve causes\\na certain amount of blood to ilow back from that por-\\ntion of the heart from which it has just come.\\nIn any of these conditions we have imperfect heart\\naction, and as a consequence of impaired flow the\\nheart is worked much harder and becomes hypertro-\\nphied, or enlarged.\\nThe heart is divided into four compartments two\\nabove called the auricles and two below called the\\nventricles.\\nThe blood is brought to the right side of the heart\\nby the large veins it then passes up to the lungs\\nthrough the pulmonary artery, receives a fresh supply\\nof oxygen and is returned to the left side by the pul-\\nmonary veins and is pumped out again by the left side\\nthrough the large arteries, called the aorta, for gen-\\neral distribution throughout the smaller arteries to the\\nmost remote, as well as the nearest, parts, from which\\nit gathered it up.\\nThe dog has normally an irregular heart action.\\nThe average pulse is about 90 to 100 beats per minute\\n(adult), no to 120 (youth), and 60 to 70 (old age).\\nThe symptoms of valvular heart trouble are some-\\nwhat obscure in the dog.\\nIncrease in pulse, shortness of breath and, later on,\\ndropsy.\\nValvular heart disease must be considered incur-\\nable, but a dog may live a long time and show very\\nlittle symptoms of discomfort under ordinary circum-\\nstances.\\n53", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "As the heart beg-ins to weaken and wc sec dif-\\nficulty in breathing, with palpitation, such heart tonics\\nas digitalis, strophanthus and caffeine may be given.\\nAvoid excitement and over-exertion. Give nutri-\\ntive, easily digested food, and in small quantities.\\nStone in the Bladder.\\nIt is not as common to find stone in the bladder as\\nit is to find calculi, or gravel, in the urethra, which\\nhave pissed down and lodged in the constricture of\\nthe urethra just posterior to the penial bone.\\nA dog may have stone in the bladder for a long\\ntime and not produce any severe symptoms, the only\\nindication we may have being difficulty in urinating,\\nwith a passage of a little blood after the animal has\\nhad a long run. But w hen the stone or stones come\\ndown into the urethra and accumulate there we may\\nhave an entire suppression of urine, or it may be\\nvoided drop by drop.\\nThe animal is very restless, carries his tail down or\\nslightly bent there is straining he does not cry, as a\\nrule, but grunts when endeavoring to pass his urine.\\nThe appetite is lost, the back is arched and the ab-\\ndomen has a tense feel.\\nThe bladder can easily be felt through the ab-\\ndominal wall. By pressing with the first finger and\\nthumb, we can distinctly feel a hard, rounded body,\\nwhich is painful to touch.\\nAs the treatment is a surgical one. it must be left\\nto the qualified veterinarian.\\nMeat should be given very sparingly.\\nOpen the bowels with a saline purgative\u00e2\u0080\u0094 acetate of\\npotash\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in doses of 5 grs. to to grs., or Lithia tablets\\ndissolved in the drinking water.\\n54", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE FIVE SENSES SEEING,\\n55", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "When there is complete suppression of urine, the\\nbladder may burst in about two days when this oc-\\ncurs, the animal becomes dull, with tremors of the\\nmuscles, the restlessness and pain subside, the ex-\\ntremities are cold.\\nSoon a deep coma sets in, from which the animal\\ncannot be roused, and dies in a short time.\\nDeath may occur before the bladder is ruptured,\\nfrom gangrene of that organ.\\nOBSTETRICS.\\nThe period of conception varies from 58 to 63 days.\\nWhen parturition is about to take place the bitch\\nusually seeks a quiet and secluded place for her whelp-\\ning.\\nThe period of whelping may last from two to eight\\nhours, sometimes lasting twenty-four hours. The in-\\ndications are restlessness, going in dark corners and\\nscratching as if to make a bed. The movements of\\nthe pups may be felt for several days before parturi-\\ntion.\\nThe placenta, or coverings of the pups, are usually\\neaten by the mother, and the umbilical cord, or navel\\nstring, is bitten off by her. In some of the small breeds\\nwith weak jaws, this proceeding is accomplished with\\ngreat danger to the young. I would, therefore, advise\\nthe owner to assist her in this operation by cutting it\\noff with a pair of scissors.\\nThe chief danger in parturition in the bitch is a large\\nfoetus, or irregular presentation.\\nRetention of the placenta is very rare.\\nWhen this occurs the symptoms are great depres-\\nsion, loss of appetite, pain on pressure on the abdo-\\n56", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "men, suppression of milk and inattention to her pups\\nthe temperature is increased, and the pulse quick and a\\nfoul-smelling discharge from the vulva.\\nPups are usually weaned when they are about six\\nweeks old.\\nRemember that fully 90 per cent, of pups have\\nworms. So take them in time.\\nOBESITY.\\nAn inordinately fat dog is a diseased dog. Their\\ncondition is due to absorption of large quantities of\\nhydrate of carbon and a lack of exercise. It is some-\\ntimes hereditary, as in human beings. This disease.\\nI am sorry to say, is very common in pet dogs. Due\\nto what Too much petting of an over-indulgent mis-\\ntress or master.\\nAn obese dog is lazy, dull and awkward and avoids\\nexercise he pants and blows with the slightest ex-\\nertion the coat loses its gloss, and the whole symme-\\ntry of the animal is destroved.\\nThe most common location of fat is the abdomen.\\nMany of the internal organs are covered with fat, es-\\npecially the heart. When there is a large accumula-\\ntion of fat in the chest and around the heart we have\\nthis organ weakened and dif^culty in respiration re-\\nsults.\\nThe treatment must be regular exercise, as it de-\\nstroys the use of fat in the body it also strengthens the\\nheart and the circulation is improved.\\nThe bowels must be kept open with a saline aperient\\nwhich will carry off a certain amount of fluid from the\\nb Ody. Sulphate of soda, half to one teaspoonful, dis-\\nsolved in wMrm water.\\nThe quantity of food must be decreased.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "Muscular Rheumatisfii*\\nThis disease is more often seen in old dogs. Ther^\\nis little or no fever sometimes there is great sensi-\\ntiveness on pressure, varying according to the in-\\ntensity of the attack.\\nThe animal has a dra\\\\vn-up look. The muscles of\\nthe abdomen are hard and tense they move around in\\na stiff, awkward way, and will occasionally cry when\\nmade to move quickly, or when touched or lifted in\\ncertain parts of the body.\\nWhen compelled to rise, they do so very slowly, and\\nwill remain in a sitting position a little time before they\\nget on all four legs.\\nThe bowels are often constipated, and the animal\\nmakes little efifort to empty them, from the pain which\\nit produces.\\nCertain parts of the body are affected more than\\nothers, but the disease is often.er seen in the hind quar-\\nters and loins.\\nThe muscles of the neck are sometimes the seat of\\nthis disease. The animal carries his head in a stiff\\nway. and is disinclined to take anything that he has to\\nreach down for.\\nIf the head is bent, great pain is manifested.\\nO^he disease may be acute or chronic, and one at-\\ntack predisposes to future ones.\\nThe disease sometimes runs a short course. I will\\nmention a case of a certain well known St. Bernard,\\nI ow dead.\\nJust one week before the Metropolitan Kennel Club\\nshow in Brooklyn this dog was found in his kennel\\nunable to rise. Great pain was manifested when\\ntouched or the loins or hind quarters; his appe te\\n58", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "was lost and there was slight fever. When made to\\nstand he would cry out, and would first assume the\\nsitting posture, and slowly get up. uttering cries all\\nthe time. His back was arched and he moved in an\\nawkward, stiff way.\\nIn seven days\\nhe went into the\\nshow apparently\\nas well as ever\\nand took first\\nspecial prize.\\nThe treatment\\nconsisted in fif-\\nteen grain doses\\nof salicylate of\\nsoda three timies\\na day gentle\\nmassage to the af-\\nfected muscles,\\nand the use of\\nstimulating lini-\\nments. The sali-\\ncylate of soda\\ntreatment w a s\\nalternated with\\niodide of potash\\nin ten grain doses three times a day. The bowels\\nwere kept open with a saline purgative.\\nThe causes of this disease are exposure to cold,\\nlying in damp places and going out in the rain after\\nbeing in a warm house.\\nIt very seldom ends fatallv.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Fractotes of the Bones.\\nThe symptoms of fracture are complete loss of the\\nuse of the affected limb great pain on pressure at\\nseat of fracture; deformity of the leg, and in moving\\nthe fractured ends a grating sound is heard (crepita-\\ntion).\\nA bone may be fractured longitudinally, in which\\ncase the ends of the bones are not displaced.\\nA fracture may be simple or compound. Fractures\\nof the thigh bones are more difficult to treat than\\nfractures of the front legs, from the fact that it is dif-\\niicult to apply your splints and bandages. A fracture\\nshould be treated as soon as possible. When the bones\\nare placed in position a bandage must be applied, to\\nhold them. Great care must be taken in bandaging.\\nIt would be well to leave this operation to the quali-\\nfied veterinarian.\\nWounds and their Treatment.\\nWounds are divided into punctured, incised and\\nlacerated.\\nAll wounds are accompanied with pain and hemor-\\nrhage. The danger from the bleeding of a wound\\nwill depend on the size of the artery or arteries in-\\njured.\\nIn small arteries the bleeding usually stops without\\nany interference, but in the case of large arteries the\\nanimal will bleed to death unless surgical interference\\nstops it.\\nThere is more bleeding from incised wounds than\\nthere is from punctured or lacerated.\\n60", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "The appearance of an animal when there is great\\nloss of blood is coldness of the body, paleness of the\\nvisible mucous membranes (the mouth and eyes), great\\nprostration, staggering gait, dilation of the pupils.\\nDeath takes place if half the blood in the body is lost.\\nA clot, or thrombus, is formed when an artery is\\ntied. When bleeding stops without interference, this\\ncondition takes place at the end of the artery, the inner\\ncoats curling up and a clot forming which effectually\\ncloses the bleeding end.\\nThe healing of a wound will depend largely on its\\nform, condition and location.\\nIn extensive wounds, we see many of the symptoms\\nwhich are known in man as shock.\\nThe visible mucous membranes become pale, the\\nskin is cold and the pupils are dilated. Respiration is\\nweak and irregular.\\nWounds heal by temporary union and by suppura-\\ntion. No wound can heal by first intention or tem-\\nporary union in the dog where he can lick it.\\nWe frequently have as the result of bites a condition\\nknown as phlegmone. It is an inflammation of the\\nsoft tissues which have a tendency to pus formation.\\nIt may be circumscribed or diffused.\\nThe symptoms are a circumscribed or diffused\\nswelling, which is hot and painful to touch, firm and\\ntense in the early stages, but becoming later on soft\\nand doughy,\\nNo time should be lost in making a free incision and\\nevacuating the pus. If allowed to remain, the pus\\nmay extend in all directions in the loose connective\\ntissue, causing extensive necrosis, and death may oc-\\ncur from septicaemia.\\n6j", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "When an abcess is opened and the pus evacuated,\\ncare must be taken that the wound does not close too\\nquickly. The parts should be irrigated with a 2 per\\ncent, solution of creolin once or twice a day.\\nFrom the halnt of dogs of licking their wounds,\\ngreat care must be taken in the selection of an antisep-\\ntic dressing.\\nIt is well in all cases where a bandage can be used\\nthat one be applied, but great care must be taken in\\n?pplying it about the extremities for fear of swellmg.\\nCommence from the toes and bandage up.\\nIt will sometimes be necessary to muzzle a dog to\\nprevent him from tearing off the dressings. In some\\ncases a little mustard or aloes rubbed on the bandage\\nwill prevent him from interfering with it. Iodoform\\nand corrosive sublimate dressings are very dangerous\\nand should be used with the greatest caution. They\\nare both very poisonous if licked by the patient.\\nBoric acid makes a very good dressing powder.\\nIn the treatment of contusions, cooling applications\\nof arnica and water or lotion of lead and opium are\\nuseful. It is a mistake to think that a dog heals a\\nwound by licking it; it cleanses it, but at the same time\\nthe constant licking acts as a poultice and the wound\\nis kept open.\\nWARTS.\\nWarts are oftener found on old dogs than on young.\\nThe eyelids, ears, mouth and lips are the situations\\nmost favorable to their growth. They vary in size\\nfrom a lentil to a pea. They are not tender to touch,\\nbut are made to bleed very easily.\\nThe treatment consists in removal with a pair of", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "scissors or knife and touching the spot with caustic\\nor an ointment made of sahcyhc acid, one part to two\\nof glycerine.\\nECZEMA.\\nEc;!:ema is an affection of the skin of mternal origin,\\nsometimes made manifest through the influence of ex-\\nternal cause and characterized by the presence of vesi-\\ncles, pustules, papules, etc. The varieties of eczema\\ndependent on the primitive lesions are the erythema-\\ntous, vesicular, pustular and papular.\\nThe disease may be acute, sub-acute or chronic.\\nLocation influences the appearances presented by\\neczematous lesions, and I doubt not that color and\\nbreed are potent factors.\\nAn acute eczema usually commences with a local\\ncongestion, followed by vesicles and pustules. If the\\nlesion is vesicular, the congested surface is seen cov-\\nered with a mass of minute but closely aggregated\\nvesicles filled with serum.\\nRubbing, scratching or other violence from without\\nor the pressure of the exudate from within soon rup-\\ntures the thin layer of the skin and in a short while the\\nvesicles are obliterated and instead a raw and ex-\\nposed surface covered with exudation is seen; the\\nwatery portion of the exudation evaporates and a yel-\\nlowish crust forms and mats the hair.\\nIt is true that very little is absolutely known as to\\nthe cause of eczema, but sufficient facts have been ob-\\nserved in connection with the development of the dis-\\nease to warrant certain inductions that in practice yield\\nvery satisfactory results.\\n63", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "In my experience the factors may be said mainly to\\nbe constitutional causes, hereditary and otherwise, and\\nexternal inlluences.\\nIn the summer time, when vermin are most trouble-\\nsome, the conditions being favorable, scratching brings\\nthe disease sooner to those portions of the body most\\neasily reached by the nails of the dog.\\nIn many disorders of the skin, one of the most dif-\\nficult symptoms we have to deal with is the sensation of\\nitching, and could we cure this the disease itself would\\nofttimes disappear.\\nEczema is a disease which arises as a consequence\\nof certain derangements or peculiarities of internal ori-\\ngin, and often, perhaps, brought to the surface through\\nsome source of external irritation.\\nIn other words, two classes of causes, predisposing\\nand exciting, are necessary for the production of the\\neruption in a majority of cases.\\nNo form of external irritation known to me is capa-\\nble of exciting true eczema in a perfectly healthy dog.\\nA hyperamic condition of the skin known as erythe-\\nma is often confounded with eczema.\\nDog doctors and advertising quacks, of which there\\nare many, dupe the credulous dog owner with nos-\\ntrums, declaring that the dog has mange. There are\\ntwo kinds of mange, follicular and sarcoptic they are\\nboth rare diseases in the dog. They are parasitic dis-\\neases eczema is not. But in almost all cases of mange\\nwe have a papular eczema from external irritations of\\na mechanical, chemical or thermic nature.\\nEczema depends upon a constitutional derangement\\nor diathesis, hereditary or acquired, and of indefinite\\nduration.\\n64", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE FIVE SENSES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FEELING.\\n63", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "It is clue to the retention and accumulation in the\\nblood of an undue amount of certain excrementitious\\nsubstances which normally should be removed by the\\nkidneys as fast as formed this accumulation may be\\ndue to deficient functional activity of the kidneys, or\\nto excessive formation of substances in the main uric\\nacid and other products of imperfect oxidation.\\nUrea represents the highest degree of oxidation of\\nthe products of assimilation and disassimilation. Uric\\nacid, a lower degree of oxidation. Urea is extremely\\nsoluble and is excreted by the kidneys with ease.\\nUric acid is extremely insoluble and is excreted with\\ndifficulty, and in extremely small quantities, and lastly\\nthe deficient oxidation of nitrogenous elements of the\\nblood and tissues.\\nThese causes will be fou.nd to reside in the liver,\\nwhich is the chief seat of oxidizing process. To the\\nliver, then, we must look for the primary causes of the\\ntrouble, and any one who will clinically observe cases\\nof chronic eczema from this standpoint will be sur-\\nprised at the number of patients who will exhibit\\nsvmptoms pointing to this organ.\\nThe causes of hepatic derangement are doubtless\\nmanifold over feeding, too much meat diet, lack of\\nexercise, etc.\\nAn exclusive meat diet may be all right in hunting\\ndogs and those having opportunities for a great deal\\nof exercise, but for house dogs this food is decidedly\\nobjectionable.\\nDog biscuits have a certain amount of meat, and I\\nthink sufficient for house dogs.\\nTo defective ahmcntation may be traced dyspepsia,\\ndiarrhoea, skin eruptions, poor coats, obesity, diabetes,\\netc.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "The chief local excitingf cause of eczema is scratch-\\ning, caused by fleas, or flies, uncleanliness, etc\\nA thorough appreciation, therefore, of all the causes\\nof the eruption, both actuating and contributory, can-\\nnot fail to greatly assist the veterinarian in the proper\\nselection of his remedies applicable to a given case.\\nTreatment.\\nIn a disease which may present so many different\\nphases as regards appearance or lesion that may oc-\\ncur in all shades of general constitutional vigor or de-\\nbility that may be met with in connection with every\\nother organic or functional affection it is hardly to be\\nexpected that any one form of routine treatment will\\nmeet the requirements of every individual case with\\nsuccess.\\nSuch an expectation would be at variance with\\nknown laws of pathology and with universal experience\\nin most other forms of disease.\\nIn eczema, treatment will be successful just in pro-\\nportion as every feature in each individual case is fully\\nappreciated and its indication provided for.\\nThe task that the veterinarian has before him is two-\\nfold.\\nHe must remove the exciting lesion as speedily and\\nthoroughly as possible, and he must so try and alter\\nthe general constitution or habit of the patient as to\\ndiminish and perhaps, abolish the tendencies to re-\\nlapse. To fully display the various therapeutic agents\\nthat may be brought into play against the different\\nmanifestations of the disease it is expedient to ana-\\nlyze and group them.\\nThis we shall do under the following heads\\nHygienic, etiological, diasthetic, internal, external.\\n\u00c2\u00ab7", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "In the acute stage of a discharging eczema, water\\nsometimes does harm, but the irritant effects of the\\nwater can be controlled in a measure by the addition\\nof a small quantity of glycerine, or common salt, in the\\nproportion of a teaspoonful to a basin of water. In\\nihe sub-acute and chronic form, when there is an ex-\\nfoliating cuticle, the application of soap and water\\nthoroughly rubbed in is of great service.\\nWe sometimes use a little carbonate of soda in place\\nof the salt to allay the itching. We see more of this\\ndisease in summer than in winter. Many local irrita-\\ntions may excite an eczema, and just in proportion as\\ntheir influence has been prolonged will the eczema\\nprove obstinate and unyielding.\\nAll possible local causes should be sought for and\\nremedied.\\nThe predisposing cause underlying eczema is as we\\nhave already noticed a general condition characterized\\nby deficient oxidation and sluggish action of the or-\\ngans concerned in this process. The principal point\\nto consider, I think, is the influence excited in any\\ngiven case by the greater or lesser functional inactivity\\nof the liver.\\nIn a very large proportion of cases of long standing\\nhepatic torpor is clearly evident, sometimes due to\\nhereditary predisposition, but oftener to injudicious\\nfeeding and lack of exercise.\\nAmong the drugs useful in the treatment of this dis-\\nease to be used internally is calomel given in ver)^\\nsmall doses.\\nIf it is not thought desirable to give calomel, the\\nfollowing may be given\\nR. Euonymin, i-8 gr.\\nPodophylin, 1-20 gr.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Calomel, i-8 gr.\\nAloin, 1-12 gr.\\nFormula for one pill. Dose, one to three, accord-\\ning to size of dog.\\nThe diet of an eczematous patient must be some-\\nwhat guided by the condition of the dog. If the ani-\\nmal is plethoric, the amount of food must be lessened\\nand exercise given.\\nIf, on the contrary, you have a case where the nutri-\\ntive functions are faulty the appetite must be stimu-\\nlated by some of the bitter tonics, nux vomica, etc.\\nDirect internal treatment.\\nArsenic in the form of Fowler s solution or strych-\\nnme arseniate 1-40 to 1-134 gr. two or three times a\\nday, according to size and age.\\nArsenic is a stimulant to the skin. It excites spe-\\ncific action on it, and is of itself capable of producing\\nvarious eruptions it needs to be handled with discre-\\ntion.\\nIn an acute eczema it is contra-indicated in the\\nchronic eczema; when we have a glassv skin, covered\\nwith fine scales, arsenic exerts its greatest influence\\nfor good.\\nGastric irritation and swelling of the eyelids and\\ndiarrhoea, indicate that too large an amount of the\\ndrug has been given. Calcium sulphide is another\\n.useful medicament in doses of one-half to one grain\\ntwo or three times a day.\\nThe local treatment of eczema involves the employ-\\nment of various lotions, ointments, powders and soaps.\\nA very formidable list of these may be given. The\\nnumber of soaps in the market mav be counted bv the\\ndozens.\\n69", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "The ointments most in vogue are sulphur ointment,\\nzinc ointment, and those containing carbohc acid.\\nBalsam peru is a valuable application, and on account\\nof its pleasant odor and being free from grease it is\\nwell adapted to house dogs. Powders are sometimes\\nusefuhvhen there is a great deal of exudation, such as\\nsub-nitrate of bismuth.\\nSoaps Of these, plain white castile and tar soap are\\nvery good. I do not recommend carbolic soap.\\nTar soap is useful in the scaly stage.\\nAntipruritics or those medicines which have a ten-\\ndency to stop itching.\\nOne of the most distressing features of many cases\\nof eczema is the intolerable itching it is the symptom\\nwhich gives us the most trouble.\\nAn application which will relieve the itching has\\nlong been sought for, but, unfortunately, has not been\\nfound.\\nThis symptom ceases when the eczema gets well,\\nand not as a rule until then.\\n70", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Diseases of the Ear*\\n(SEROUS CRYSTS.)\\nThis disease is an accumulation of lymphatic secre-\\ntion between the skin and cartilage of the ear. It\\ngenerally occurs on the inside.\\nThe swelling is fluctuating and, as a rule, not very\\npainful.\\nThis condition is probably due to some external\\nviolence; for instance, shaking of the head, bites and\\nbruises.\\nIf this tumor is not opened, the contents may be\\nreabsorbed, leaving the car thickened and malformed.\\nThe animal carries his head in an oblique direction,\\nthe afifected ear being held downward. He shakes his\\nhead with great care and sometimes scratches at the\\nafifected side, touching it very lightly and crying while\\ndoing so.\\nThe disease yields rapidly to treatment if taken in\\ntime, but if allowed to go on we may have a thicken-\\ning of the whole internal meatus, almost closing it.\\nThe treatment consists in making a free incision\\ninto the tumor to its full length, evacuating the con-\\ntents, washing it out with a solution of creolin and\\npacking the cavity with iodoform gauze.\\nCanket of the Ear.\\n(OTOMYCOSIS ASPERGILUNA.)\\nThis is an inflammation of the external ear some-\\ntimes we find an eczematous rash on the inside oi the\\nflap extending deeply into the meatus.\\nIt is accompanied with redness and swelling and an\\nexudation of a brownish color and with an odor re-\\nsembling cheese.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "We sometimes have a formatiort of abcesses and\\ng^reat thickening of the meatus; the tympanum, or\\ndrum of the ear is rarely afifected. It. is probably due\\nto an accumulation of cerumen (or ear wax), dirt and\\nscabs. It affects all breeds of dogs.\\nSYMPTOMS.\\nThe animal shakes its head one ear, as a rule, is\\nmore afifected than the other he carries his head in an\\noblique direction, and scratches the ear, but very\\nlightly. This act will som.etimes cause him to cry out.\\nThey avoid any attempt to touch the ear.\\nIn advanced cases, the meatus is almost entirely\\nclosed.\\nThere is impaired hearing when both ears are af-\\nfected.\\nIf the base of the ear be compressed and moved,\\nwe will hear a sucking sound, caused by the supurat-\\ning condition.\\nThe general health of the patient is seldom afifected.\\nThere is a parasitic afifection of the ear which I think\\nwe will always find in aggravated cases. These fungi\\nare called aspergillina-nigrigans the deeper portion of\\nthe canal and the tympanic membrane are afifected.\\nTREATMENT.\\nAlcohol was a remedy that was much used and\\nmany quack preparations of a stimulating character.\\nThe use of such agents in a highly inflamed and\\npainful auditory canal wifl hardly be maintained by\\nany one; they cause considerable pain and they tend to\\nfurther inflame the canal walls and tympanic mem-\\nbrane.\\nIt will be our duty to use some medicament which\\nwill efifectually destroy the parasite and at the same", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "time exert a beneficial influence upon the inflamma-\\ntion excited by its presence.\\nCold water should never be used in the ear.\\nClean the ear out thoroughly with warm water. In\\nlarge dogs this can be fairly well done with the finger\\nand a soft rag, but in the smaller breeds this operation\\nis better accomplished by an instrument.\\nIodoform and starch is a very good powder. Chino-\\nline salicylate and starch, i to 8, or i to i6. gives good\\nresults.\\nThe parasite destroyed and the inflammation sub-\\ndued, the removal of the powder which may remain in\\nthe auditory canal may be left to nature, which,\\nthrough the outgrowth of the epidermis, will accom-\\nplish this completely within the course of a few days.\\nIt is well in plethoric animals to move the bowels\\nonce a week with a saline purge. I have had cases in\\nwhich the ear was so inflamed and painful that I was\\ncompelled to use cocaine before the animal would al-\\nlow me to examine it.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Rabies and Hydrophobia.\\nIn the dog this disease is caUed rabies (la rage). In\\nman hydrophobia (or dread of water).\\nIt is described by some writers as acute disease of\\nthe entire nervous system, caused by a specific poison,\\nand distinguished by a very variable period of incuba-\\ntion.\\nIt is transmitted by direct infection through the bite\\nof an affected animal.\\nThe poison of this disease is as yet unknown, or it\\nhas not been definitely described.\\nThis disease is unknown in hot climates.\\nIt is said that the disease has no premonitory symp-\\ntoms.\\nIt manifests itself in two forms, the furious and the\\nmute, and ends in paralysis. The symptoms, as given\\nby some writers, are restlessness, fear, timidity.\\nA rabid dog is thirsty, but cannot drink he is not\\nafraid of water, as was supposed, but the inability to\\ndrink is due to paralysis of the throat. Hunger is also\\npresent.\\nBefore the pi-ralysis sets in there is a tendency to\\ngnaw and eat anything.\\nSome authors claim that one of the diagnostic signs\\nis a howling bark, hoarse and prolonged, four or five\\ntimes in succession. During the first stage the animal\\npicks up and eats foreign substances.\\nThe countenance has a peculiar expression of fear\\nand pain.\\nThe animal usually dies in from six to nine days.\\nIn post-mortem examination there is an absence of\\nspecific lesions, traces of asphyxia and congestion of", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "the lungs, meninges or coverings of the spinal cord\\nare a little inflamed.\\nThe brain matter and saliva are supposed to contain\\nthe virus.\\nIn regard to the nature of rabies and hydrophobia,\\nthe view I retain is sometimes characterized as not be-\\nlieving in them, but I would not put it ni that way.\\nThis I will say, that rabies is one of the rarest of dis-\\neases, and I have not yet seen an authenticated case.\\nI say in a vast majority of cases of so-called hydro-\\nphobia it is a simulated disease, produced by a morbid\\nimagination.\\nWhen you hear a cry of mad dog in the street, or\\nwhen your dog has a fit and rushes about, the chances\\nare a million to one that he is not rabid.\\nWhen you read in the newspapers that some one has\\nbeen bitten by a mad dog, the chances are thousands\\nto one that he is not mad.\\nRemember the fr.ct that there are more than a\\nmillion chances to one that any dog which is supposed\\nto be mad is not mad at all, and even if a person is\\nbitten by a rabid dog, the danger of having hydro-\\nphobia is not great.\\nDr. Dulles, who has for a number of years taken a\\ngreat interest in the subject of hydrophobia, says\\nThere are a few symptoms supposed to be present\\nin most cases, one of which is the fear of water.\\nThis is not an luiiversal symptom, and it is found\\nin many cases where there have been no inoculations\\nfrom a dog.\\nIt has been asserted that it is always the result of\\nthe bite of a rabid dog, but it has been due to a greav\\nvariety of causes and a great number of diseases.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Among the diseases in which fear of water occurs\\nare angina, inflammation of the throat, inflammation\\nof the middle ear, rheumatism, diseases of the kidneys\\nwith a form of uremic poisoning.\\nThe doctor has followed Pasteur s experiments from\\nthe beginning.\\nHe says when you take the figures, you find that\\nwithout intervention there would have died in France\\nmore persons than have actually died of hydrophobia\\nin the history of the whole world (if the assumption of\\ntheir beliefs be accepted). It is a fact that with ah\\nthis boasted treatment, the actual number of deaths\\nhas not diminished in France from this disease since\\n1885.\\nThere have been inoculations all over the world\\nsince that time, and there has not been one death les\\nper annum, in any country, and in France the deaths\\nhave exceeded those of previous years.\\nIn Germany this value of Pasteur s treatment was\\nlooked into and as hydrophobia was a very rare dis-\\nease there, they concluded that they did not need an\\ninstitute. The so-called hydrophobia thrives better in\\nthe immediate proximity of the Pasteur Institute.\\nIt is strange to say that the two foci of hydrophobia\\nare New York and Chicago, both of these cities having\\nan institute.\\nThe American v^ociety for the Prevention of Cruelty\\nto Animals, in the thirty years of their experience, say\\nour officers and agents have been constantly on the\\nlookout, but no undoubted case has ever faUen under\\ntheir observation or within their knowledge.\\nThere is such a disease, and it is important for you\\nto know whether a sick dog is or is not rabid.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "l^he symptoms claimed by most writers on the sub-\\nject are very different from those usually represented\\nto the public.\\nr. It is supposed that a mad dog dreads water. This\\nis not so, but he is usually unable to drink.\\n2. It is supposed that a mad dog rushes about furi-\\nously, under intense excitement.\\nThe mad dog never runs about in an excited man-\\nner; he never gallops, but when out, jogs along at a\\nsteady gait. He never goes out of his way to avoid a\\nperson, but will snap and continue his journey.\\nThere is always a great inclination to stray away\\nfrom home and seek solitary places. Incredible dis-\\ntances are traveled, and he will always return home, if\\npossible.\\n3. A rabid dog does not bark, yelp or whine. The\\nsound he em ks is a hoarse growl, or a howling bark,\\nthree or four times in succession.\\n4. It is supposed that a mad dog froths at the mouth.\\nIt is not so.\\nThere is a thick, ropy, tenacious saHva clinging to\\nhis lips, which he endeavors to get rid of with his\\npaws.\\nAffections of the brain are often mistaken for rabies.\\nIn conchision, I will say that I do not deny the ex-\\nistence of the disease, but it is a very rare disease, and\\nnot one case in one hundred called so is true rabies or\\nhydrophobia.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "Diseases of the Eye.\\nInflammation of the conjunctiva is the most com-\\nmon affection of the eye met with in dogs.\\nIn ordinary cases we see a redness and sweUing of\\nthe conjunctiva and an accumulation of mucus in the\\ncorners of the eyes. This accumulation of mucus\\nsticks to the edges of the eyelids, and during the night,\\nwhen the animal is asleep, it dries up and sticks the\\neyelashes together. We sometimes meet with a follic-\\nular conjunctivitis. This inflammatory condition is\\nfound chiefly in the inner angle of the eye, on the third\\neyelid.\\nThe causes of conjunctivitis are exposure to cold,\\nforeign bodies in the eye, etc.\\nPurulent conjunctivitis is usually the result of some\\nspecific infectious disease, such as distemper. There\\nis great sensitiveness to light, the animal constantly\\nworking the eye the secretions are muco-purulent and\\nof a greenish-yellow color the cornea becomes of a\\ndull, bluish color, and in some cases ulceration takes\\nplace. It is a very dangerous disease, causing exten-\\nsive inflammation and ulceration and finally loss of\\nsight.\\nIf the disease is produced from irritating substances,\\nwe must wash out the eyes thoroughly with some\\nwarm water, pulling the lids gently apart.\\nWhen due to a cold, a solution of boric acid dropped\\ninto the lids and then touched with a solution of nitrate\\nof silver, two grains to the ounce.\\nCataract is often seen in the dog. The kind which\\nwe chiefly meet with is known as gray, or senile cata-\\nract.\\n78.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Cataract is often hereditary the development is\\nslow. We notice by taking the animal to the light a\\ngrayish appearance of the pupil. By dilating the pupil\\nwith a solution of atropine this condition will be more\\neasily recognized.\\nA cataract may be removed by an operation, and is\\nattended with some success and without a great deal\\nof danger.\\nDiseases of the Teeth.\\nDogs suffer more with their teeth than most of the\\ndomesticated animals.\\nWe see diseased conditions of the teeth more in\\nsome breeds than in others.\\nYorkshire and Black-and-Tan Terriers seem to be\\nmorj prone to dental affections than most others.\\nAccumulations of tartar and caries of the teeth are\\nthe diseases we meet with. Tartar is a calcareous de-\\nposit on the neck of the tooth at the border of the\\ngums. If allowed to accumulate, it gradually pushes\\nthe gums back and often loosens the teeth and causes\\ngreat irritation. This accumulation of tartar ought to\\nbe removed before it irritates the gums to too great\\nan extent. The mouth might be washed out with a\\nlittle tincture of myrrh and water. It is very essential\\nthat a dog s teeth should be examined by its owner\\nand not allowed to get into such a condition that the\\ngums are irritated.\\nIn old dogs we often see an acute inflammation of\\nthe periosteum, and the alveolar process becoming in-\\nvolved, the teeth become loose and fall out.\\nAlveolar periostitis commences with the formation\\nof an abcess at the root of the tooth, with abcess of", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "the gums, and a fistulous tract may be found in the\\nupper jaw bone and open under the eye, just below the\\nunder eyelid.\\nIn all cases there is a severe toothache they are ir-\\nritable, eat very slowly, and when anything hard is\\ntaken into the mouth, the pain causes a spasmodic\\ntwitching of the jaw. They will rebel against having\\nthe mouth examined, and if the tooth be struck with\\nanything hard, they will howl and evince great pain.\\nIn such cases the offending teeth should be removed\\nat once, and the mouth washed out with a solution of\\ntincture myrrh and water, or listerine and water\\n(warm).\\nGlossitis, or Inflammation of the Tongue.\\nDogs sometimes receive injuries to the tongue, re-\\nsulting in severe inflammation. This occurs from bit-\\ning it during an attack of epilepsy, or in eating sharp\\nsubstances, or from acrid matters coming in contact\\nwith it.\\nSYMPTOMS.\\nPain, swelling, increased salivation, dif^culty in\\nswallowing, intense thirst and partial loss of appetite.\\nTREATMENT.\\nWarm fomentations and frequent swabbing of the\\nmouth with a solution of tincture of myrrh.\\nGive a saline aperient and feed with sloppy food.\\nParalysis of the Tongfuei\\nParalysis of the tongue is sometimes congenital, but\\nit often occurs from injury or debility.\\nSYMPTOMS.\\nThe organ hangs generally from one side of the\\nmouth. It rarely interferes with lapping.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "From long exposure to air. it becomes dry and more\\nor less indurated, and of a purplish color.\\nIf the paralysis is of recent date and not congenital,\\nbut consecutive to some disease, we may, by the use\\nof nerve tonics, long continued, considerably reduce\\nit. Strychnine, in doses ranging from one hundredth\\nof a grain to one-fortieth, according to the size of the\\ndog, three times a day. The tongue should be re-\\nplaced in the mouth, and a tape put around the muz-\\nzle, so as to keep the tongue in for an hour or two\\nevery day.\\nThe diet should be composed of sloppy food and\\ngiven cold.\\nThe breeds most subject to paralysis of the tongue\\nare Pugs and Toy Spaniels this may be due to the\\nextremely short jaws of these breeds.\\nI have never seen this condition in the Japanese\\nSpaniel, although this breed has quite as short a head\\nas the breeds mentioned above.\\nPOISONS.\\nThe dog is more frequently the victim of poison, ac-\\ncidentally or purposely, than any of our domesticated\\nanimals.\\nA short chapter on the symptoms and treatment is\\nhere given\\nPOISONING BY ARSENIC\\nViolent intlammation of the stomach and intestines,\\ngreat restlessness, bloody diarrhoea, hawking, vomit-\\ning, great weakness, finally collapse and death in a\\nfew hours.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "TREATMENT.\\nEmetics. Salt and water is the most ready house-\\nhold emetic hydrated peroxide of iron in water every\\nquarter of an hour and alcoholic stimulants by mouth\\nand rectum.\\nPOISONING BY STRYCHNINE.\\nThis is usually administered intentionally, or it may\\nbe caused by repeating the dose too frequently. The\\ndog is particularly susceptible to this drug.\\nThe symptoms are tetanic spasms, the animal some-\\ntimes utters a loud cry, falling on his side, and the ex-\\ntremities are twitched; also the jaws (champing).\\nThese symptoms are intermittent. When the ani-\\nmal comes out of a convulsion, touching it, particularly\\non the spine, will immediately provoke another at-\\ntack.\\nThe intensity of the attack depends upon the dose\\ntaken.\\nIn walking, the gait is stiff and the hind extremi-\\nties are moved in a stifT fashion he staggers and reels\\nand then falls, the twitchings resembling those of a\\ndog in a fit.\\nTREATMENT.\\nGive narcotics, as rectal injections of chloral hy-\\ndrate, lo to 30 grains, dissolved in water, according to\\nthe size of the dog. Hypodermic injections of mor-\\nphine, 1-4 gr.\\nKeep the animal quiet and in a dark place.\\nPOISONING BY CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE.\\nPoisoning by this drug is extremely rare. The\\nsymptoms are intense inflammation of the entire in-\\ntestinal tract, great thirst, vomiting, panting and signs\\n82", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "of pain; the mouth is swollen and red, bloody diar-\\nrhoea, the extremities are cold and convulsions until\\ndeath relieves the sufferer.\\nTREATMENT.\\nLarge quantities of the white of eggs or milk.\\nStimulants, hypodermically or by rectum. Sulphur\\nor iodide of potash, lo gr. if the dose has not been\\nsufficient to kill the animal, it should be fed on soft\\nfood and eggs.\\nPOISONING BY CARBOLIC ACID.\\nThis is generally produced by animals licking ap-\\nplications containing this drug that have been applied\\nto the skin, or by absorption through the skin from a\\nwound.\\nThe dog is very susceptible to this drug.\\nThe symptoms are Olive colored urine, colicky\\npains, pain on pressure of the abdomen, vomiting, diar-\\nrhoea, great inflammation of the mouth, weakness,\\ntwitching of the muscles, paralysis and convulsions.\\nTREATMENT.\\nGive a large dose of Glauber s salts, stimulants, as\\nwhisky or brandy. Keep the animal warm and give\\nthe white of eggs or milk.\\nThe sores in the mouth may be washed with a little\\ntincture of myrrh or a solution of chlorate of potash.\\nIf the animal recovers, the diet should be beef tea,\\neggs and milk.\\nPOISONING BY PHOSPHORUS.\\nThis may be caused by eating some of the various\\nforms of roach or bug poisons.\\n83", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "The symptoms are constant vomiting. The rejected\\nmatter has the odor of phosphorus; great restlessness,\\nhowhng and whining; intense irritation of the mouth\\nand throat. The saHva is thick and copious.\\nAfter these symptoms have subsided, the mucous\\nmembrane becomes a dirty yellow. Great pain on\\npressure in the region of the liver and intestines. The\\nfoecal matter is tinged with blood, and finally paraly-\\nsis and collapse.\\nTREATMENT.\\nAs an emetic, sulph. copper, i.o; water, 50.0.\\nTablespoonful every ten minutes until effect.\\nThis is the dose for a medium-sized dog Turpen-\\ntine, 10 to 30 drops, beaten up with the white of an\\negg-\\nDo not give oil of any kind.\\nIt is always difificult to treat poisoning in dogs as\\nwe usually see the animals after the drug has been\\nwell absorbed, and the symptons of most of the cor-\\nrosive poisons are very much alike, but it will always\\nbe a safe plan when poisoning is suspected to imme-\\ndiately give an emetic, and a ready household one is\\nsalt and mustard.\\nKeep the animal warm.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "PRESCRIPTIONS.\\nDistemper.\\nCommence with small doses of Calomel, grain, until from\\none to two grains are taken repeat in two days.\\nTo keep eyes clean use a solution of Boric Acid, 20 grains to\\nthe ounce.\\nFor diarrhoea, Sulpho-carbolate Zinc in grain doses until\\neffect.\\nCalcium Sulphide in to i grain doses 3 or 4 times a day.\\nFor fever, Acetanilid in doses of 2 to 5 grains 3 or 4 times\\na day.\\nStimulants of whiskey or brandy.\\nEasily digested nutritious food, eggs, milk and beef tea.\\nDiarrhoea.\\nSulpho-carbolate Zinc, X to i grain 3 or 4 times a day or\\nSubgallate Bismuth, 2 grains to 5 grains 3 or 4 times a day.\\n85", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "Bronchial Cougfh.\\nJR/ Codeinoe Sulph gr- iv.\\nAmmon. Chloride 3 v.\\nSyr. prun. Virgin fl. 3 ii.\\nSpts. jun. Comp. q s ad fl. 3 iv.\\nTeaspoonful every 3 hours.\\nFor Torpid Liver.\\nf^luid extract Cascara Sagrada, 30 to 60 drops in the morning\\ntwo or three times a week or, Chionia, half teaspoonful 3 or 4\\ntimes a week. Reduce meat diet. Give skimmed milk.\\nCanker of the Ear.\\nWash out the ears with a solution of Bicarbonate Soda,\\n30 grains to the ounce of water, and gently apply with the end\\nof the finger a little Resinol ointment.\\nFits.\\nRemove cause. Clean out bowels with a dose of Castor Oil.\\nAllay excitement with Morphine, }i to X grain.\\nFits in pups are chiefly due to worms.\\nAbscess.\\nOpen freely, and wash out with a 2 per cent, solution of Creo-\\nlin, or pack cavity with Iodoform gauze.\\nFor Tape Worm.\\nV^ Pelletienne gr. }4\\nFollow in I )4 hours by a dose of Castor Oil. Dose for medium\\nsized adult dog.\\n86", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "A G)ugfh Mixture,\\nCodeinoe gr. iv.\\nAc. hydrocyan. dil 9 ii.\\nAm. Chlorid 9 ii.\\nSyr. Pruni Virg. ad ii.\\nTeaspoonful every 3 hours.\\nFor Round Worms*\\nSantonin gr. i.\\nCalomel gr. ss.\\nOne powder every morning until 4 or 5 have been taken.\\nFollow each dose, about an hour after, with a tablespoonful of\\nSweet Oil.\\nFor Moist Eczema.\\nJR^ Resorcin part i.\\nAcoholis 50\\nVaselin 150\\nApply once or twice a day.\\nRheumatism.\\nSalicylate Soda, 5 grains to 10 grains 3 times a day.\\nOpen bowels with Calomel, i grain to 3 grains, according to\\nsize of dog.\\nKeep animal warm and dry.\\nFor Wounds.\\nCreolin i part.\\nAqua 50 parts.\\nWash with this, and dust surface with Boric powder.\\n87", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "Tonic Pills.\\nMedium sized dog.\\nReduced Iron gf- i-\\nArsenous Acid gr. 1-50\\nStrychnine Sulp gr. 1-60\\nFor smaller dogs reduce the Strychnine to i-ioo.\\nFor All Pain.\\nMorphine Sulph., }i to X grain.\\nRepeat in 3 hours if not relieved.\\nFor Itching Eczema.\\nExt. Grindel. Rob 3 i.\\nUng. Resinol i.\\nAdeps Lanae, q s ad 3 ii.\\nApply to affected area.\\nFor Colic.\\nCalomel, i grain to 3 grains, followed by a dose of Castor Oil\\nor Olive Oil.\\nFor pain, Morphine, /s to X grain.\\nFeed on soft food for a few days. At each time of feeding\\ngive I grain of Pepsin.\\nCystitis.\\nOpen bowels with a dose of Salts.\\nBenzoate of Soda, 2 grains to 5 grains, 3 times a day or\\nSalicylate Soda, 5 to 10 grains, 3 times a day.\\nIf urine is suppressed the catheter will have to be used.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Asthma*\\nTo relieve the difficult breathing, give Glonoin. l-ioo grain,\\nevery half hour until relief.\\nPotassium Iodide gr. v.\\nSol. Potass. Arsenite m. i.\\nTinct. Belladonna m. ii.\\nThis represents one dose or\\nR Apomorphia o.oi\\nMorph. Hydro 0.06\\nAc. Hydrochlor. dil 0.3\\nAqua 1 00.0\\nOne to two teaspoonfuls every 3 hours.\\nPneumonia.\\nAt the onset of the attack give small doses of Calomel, to\\n.I4 grain, until one grain has been taken.\\nFor the fever, Acetanilid, in doses of 2 grains to 5 grains 3\\ntimes a day.\\nKeep the animal quiet and warm. Put on a jacket made of\\ncotton batten, and hold in place w^th a bandage of unbleached\\nmuslin. Rub a little ammonia liniment to sides. Diet beef\\ntea, milk and scraped raw meat.\\nA tablet made of the following 3 times a day\\nR\\nAmmonium Salicylate grs. 2)4\\nAcetanilid grs. 2^\\nCitrated CaffSin grs. )4\\nChronic Diarrhoea.\\nGive a dose of Castor Oil to clean out bowels.\\nR Sulph. Copper gr. i.\\nSulph. Morphia gr- i\\nSulph. Quinine gr. xxiv.\\n89", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "M. ft. pil. No. xH. One 3 times a day.\\nOr, Subgallate Bismuth, 2 to 5 grs., 3 times a day or Sulpho-\\ncarbolate Zinc, i to 2 grains 3 times a day.\\nFor Weak Eyes,\\nBathe two or three times a day with a solution of Boric Acid.\\n20 grains to the ounce of distilled water.\\nPeritonitis,\\nGive Calomel in small doses, }4 to )4 gr., every half hour\\nuntil from one to two grains are taken Morphine jg to }4 grain\\nto relieve pain, hot applications to bowels. Feed on liquid food,\\nbeef tea or milk. Keep animal warm and quiet.\\nGastritis.\\nIf the stomach is irritable and there is much vomiting give\\nCreosote, half to one minim, in tablet form, two to three times\\na day or Subgallate of Bismuth, 2 to 5 grains, two or three\\ntimes a day.\\nThe food should be milk, peptonized.\\nIf there is constipation, Enemas must be given.\\nWater must be given sparingly, only a small quantity at\\na time and quite cold.\\nIndigestion.\\nCascara Sagrada, 20 to 6o drops in the morning to gently\\nmove the bowels. Pepsin, in i to 2 grains, must be given at each\\nmeal. Fatty food and vegetables must be avoided. Milk, beef\\ntea or raw meat scraped, must be the diet. Give in small\\nquantities.\\n91", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "A CHAPTER OF DON TS.\\nDon t expect a puppy to know as much as an adult\\ndog.\\nDon t keep a dog unless you are fond of it.\\nDon t expect to house break a pup in a week.\\nDon t ill-use him because he does not understand\\nyou.\\nDon t wait too long to break him to chain and col-\\nlar.\\nDon t think that a dog has no likes or dislikes.\\nDon t whip him if he barks at a stranger, and never\\nkick your dog.\\nDon t allow him to have his own way, but be firm\\nand determined with him, using only enough punish-\\nment to control him, if you can t accomplish it by talk-\\ning to him.\\nDon t allow your dog to stray too far from you in\\nthe streets, and make him obedient to call.\\nDon t allow him to cross the street unless he is near\\nto you for fear of being run over by bicycles and\\nwagons.\\nDon t be afraid to give your dog plenty of exercise.\\nDon t over-feed him one meal a day is sufihcient\\nfor any house dog (adult).\\nDon t feed him around the table.\\nDon t give him chicken bones they are dangerous.\\nDon t ignore his instincts and think that he can live\\non starchy foods alone.\\nDon t entertain the false notion that meat produces\\nfits or mange.\\nDon t give him a taste for candies.\\n9a", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Don t wash him more than once a week in warm\\nweather, and only once in two weeks in cold weather,\\nand not even then, unless he actually requires it.\\nDon t frighten him when giving him his bath, and\\ndo not allow soap to irritate his eyes.\\nDon t neglect the care of his teeth see that tartar\\ndoes not accumulate on them.\\nDon t neglect his ears clean them out with a soft\\nrag occasionally, using only warm water.\\nDon t let him dry himself after his bath, and do not\\ntake him out doors too soon after, particularly in win-\\nter.\\nDon t let his hair get matted a little attention to this\\nin long-haired varieties will save a great deal of truble.\\nDon t clip your dog in summer he will suffer more\\nfrom flies, and besides his coat will never look as well\\nagain.\\nDon t think it too much trouble to nurse your dog\\nwhen sick, and don t wait to call in the veterinarian if\\nyou think he is seriously sick\\nDon t believe half of the stories you read in the daily\\npapers of mad dogs rabies is one of the rarest of dis-\\neases, and I can confidently say that I have never seen\\na single case.\\nDon t get nervous if bitten by a dog; any dog bite, if\\nproperly treated, will get well these so-called cases of\\nhydrophobia are diseases of the imagination.\\nDon t be imposed upon by quacks and nostrum ven-\\nders, but when your dog is sick, endeavor to get a\\nveterinarian who is making the diseases of dogs a spe-\\ncial study any fool can learn how to give medicine,\\nbut it is a hard lesson to learn what medicine to give\\nand when to give it.\\n93", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "It is not my intention to advance anything new or\\nstartling, but rather to suggest or outHne simple, ef-\\nfective treatment in the most common ailments to\\nwhich pet dogs are liable.\\nHas not the day arrived when the owners of dogs\\nshould exercise the greatest possible caution before ac-\\ncepting the nostrums of quacks especially so when\\nwe consider the fact that the class of dogs we see now\\nhave a much greater money value than they had a few\\nyears ago", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nPack\\nAdministration of Medicine 19\\nAsthma 43\\nBrain. Inflammation of 45\\nBronchitis 4*\\nBowels, Inflammation of 23\\nCanker of the Ear 71\\nColic 21\\nChronic Irritable Cough 32\\nChorea St. Vitus Dance; 48\\nDon ts, A Chapter of 92\\nDedication 1\\nDropsy 3\u00c2\u00b0\\nDistemper 35\\nEye, Diseases of 78\\nExercise 6\\nEczema 63\\nEar, Diseases of 7\\nFeeding iQ\\nFits, Epileptic 44\\nFractures of the Bones 60\\nHydrophobia 74\\nHeart Disease 53\\nIntroduction 3\\nInflammation of the Brain 4S\\nInflammation of the Liver 52\\nInflammation of the Bowels 23\\nLaryngitis 4i\\nLiver, Inflammation of 52\\nNursing 20\\nObstetrics 56\\nObesity 57\\nPoisons 81\\nPrescriptions 85\\nProlaps of the Rectum 31\\nPiles 31\\nPneumonia 3.^\\nParalysis 49\\nRabies 74\\nRheumatism 5^\\nSpinal Meningitis 4^\\nSt. Vitus Dance 48\\nStone in the Bladder 54\\nTeeth, Diseases 79\\nTongue, Inflammation of 80\\nTongue, Paralysis of 80\\nWashing 8\\nWorms 26\\nWounds and their Treatment 60\\nWarts 62", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "Life Policies,\\nEndov/ments,\\nContinuous Installments,\\nAND Gold Debentures,\\nISSUED BV\\nm EQIITABLE\\nLife i^^^ui^ance ^ocietsij\\nOF THE UxNITED STATES,\\nNo. I20 Broadway, New York.\\nSTRONGEST^ntSFWORLD.\\nWomen assured at same rates as men.\\nJ. \\\\Y. 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Eviry Echooi t\\nehould have a collection of native birds aiid aniu.a!s.\\ni TAXTT^PR is a compound of wonderful embalmirtC power. It is J\\nI i\\\\.^lLJL^l\\\\. not necessary to fkln biids or animals wlicn using\\ng Taxider. Birds when Tnouiitcd with Taxider become as bard ai^ stone,\\nJ and will last a thousand years unrlislurbed by moth or time, ho tools\\nJ required except those that everyone has. One box Taxider is enough\\nto mount 3J birds the size of a quail, with full instiuctionsformounting\\neveryihin^j. Also instructions for tanning skins for rugs, etc. Trice $1.\\nI S:Bn WHAT ONJ^ MAN SAYS.\\ni Mk. F. L. Acslet Ta oma. Wash., Aug. 9, 18:8.\\nJ I received the box of Taxider some time ago. It works fine. I 5\\nJ have just finished mounting a beautiful swan. I Lave alrody a n;c 5\\ncollection of birds, and a class of te en boys. It is really w^mdeitul\\n5 how it works. The very first l)i d I mounted was a success. J lcase\\nJ find enclosed money order for one dozen boxes. Please lush, rs I am 1\\n5 in quite a hurry. Thanking yen for past favors, i\\nJf I remain truly yours, J\\nJ. I!. Flanders, Tacoma, Wash.\\nI have letters like this from hundreds of people, and\\nall are havin.;;- success. Send for a box to-day. You can\\ng learn in one hour. Remember, succc^s is guaranteed J\\nJ from the start. Liberal discounts to agents. Taxider is\\nI manufactured by\\ni F L. ACKLEIY.\\n5 Sioux City, la., U. S. A. j\\n97", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "Old Grist Mill\\nDOG\\nEAT,.\\n*S* \u00e2\u0080\u00a2-^p* \u00c2\u00bbt* 9^ 4^ V^ \u00c2\u00abS* *.t* \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^V\\nA \u00e2\u0080\u00a2J\\nFISH\\nPUPPY\\nA PERFECT FOOD FOR LARGE AND SMALl HOGS.\\nENTIRE WHEAT USED INSTEAD OF GOMMON FLOUR.\\nPotter Sh Wrightiagton,\\nMANUFACTURERS OF THE\\nCelebrated Old Grist Mill Health Foods.\\n00 COMMERCE STREET, BOSTON,\\nSEND $1.00 FOR 12 INCH SAMPLE BOX.\\nqS", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab^s-\u00c2\u00abo o- c-oo^a\\no\\nOWNERS OF VALUABLE DOGS SHOULD HAVE\\nKENNEL SECRETS,\\nBy ASHMONr.\\nTHE MOST EXKA-JSTIVE TRZATISE CN THE DOG EVIR WRITTEN.\\nWith this in hand the irerest iiovico can Manage, nrceil nnd\\nExhibit Dogs as scientifically as tlie m; ^t t xperieuceO.\\nMoreover, it contains 153 Exquisite Half-tone Pictures of the\\ngrandest Dogs of a:i breeds, the world has ever known.\\nconstituling it priceless as a standard for Dogs.\\nPRICE \u00c2\u00abl\u00c2\u00bb. )0 and 84 CENTS POSTAWF.\\nModern Training and Handling\\nBy B. WATERS (KINQRAIL.)\\nIs every where considered to be far and away in a lvance of i.ll\\nothor books which treat of the same subjects.\\nIt leaves no point of a dog s education uncovered and makes clear\\nand easy the work of training, for all purposes.\\nPRICE |i2.00. SESB POSTPAID.\\nAsHMONT s Latest Book.\\nDEVOTED TO THE\\nSymptoms, Nature, Causes and Treatment of\\nDISEASES OF DOGS,\\non which he has been at work more tlian four years, should be\\noff the press about July, 1899.\\nn is a companion volume of KENNKl-SKCRETS. All subject are\\nquiteas exhaustively treated, and it will be as superbly illustrated.\\nPKICr fS.OO aiil 34 CESTS POSTAGE.\\nORDERS MAY KK BOOKED NOW.\\nAll orders for Ashtnont s books should be addressed\\nJ. LORINC THAYER PUBLISHING CO.\\nI\\nNo. 3 Park Square, BOSTON. MASS.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "(JENTRAL pARK BOARDING ReNNELS,\\n85th St., central Park, west.\\nImporter and Breeder of\\nENGLISH BULli DOGS\\nAND BULL TERRIERS.\\nIMPORTED STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND.\\nI have imported more Prize Winners than other\\ndealer in America.\\nJOHN WHELAN, Proprietor^\\n(56\\nBLUE\\n(trade mark.\\nDOQ COLLARS.\\nm\\nJOSEPH COGAN,\\nWholesale Manufncturer,\\nBOSTON, ma:s.\\nWANTED.-New York Agents who cater to the very best trade:-", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Decorative Stuffs.\\nReproductions of Antique Brocaded Silks,\\nDamasks, Embroideries, and Tapestries for Drawing-\\nrooms, Libraries, Dining-rooms, Halls, etc.\\nSelect Cretonnes and other Cotton Goods for Bed-\\nrocmis and Country Hous S. Interesting\\nStuffs, boih Plain and Figured, for Wall Hangings.\\nSoft Eastern Silks of Special Design. Plain\\nStuffs in Choice Colors A^elvets, Plushes, Cloths,\\nand Others. A large Variety of Inexpensive\\nStuffs for Curtains and Furniture Coverings, where\\nan Artistic Effect is required at a Low Cost.\\nJOHNSON FAULKNER,\\nNorth Union Square,\\nBOSTON, j^^3-^ YORK CHICAGO.\\nI20 Tremont Street. 24-26 Adams Street.\\nPHILADELPHIA, 1200 Chestnut Street.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "y\\nHE experience of more\\nthan THIRTY years\\nhas gone to the per-\\nfecting of\\n.S Pt^ATT S\\nDog\\nPATENT and\\nPoultry\\nFOODS.\\nAnd to-day their aggregate output of\\nFIVE HUNDRED TONS per week\\nof manufactured foods testifies to the\\nuniversal appreciation of their excel-\\nlence. It is no exaggeration to say\\nthat the most successful breeders,\\ndealers and amateurs owe something of\\ntheir success to our products.\\nSend for Catalogue, etc., to\\nSPRATT S PATENT LIHITED,\\n339 to 245 EAST 56th STREET,\\nNEW YORK, N. Y.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ilf\\nP\\nQ/IRIiEri CITY,\\nL. I.\\nAT STUD:\\nFRENCH BULL DOGS\\nAND BOSTON TERRIERS.\\nFRENCH BULL DOGS\\nPierrot^ Mons Blanc, Le Petit Co Co, and Shotto.\\nBOSTON TERRIER EI Rey.\\nA number of fine young dogs, bitches and puppies for sale.\\nCan be seen at the Kennels (45 minutes from New York)\\nor in town on short notice by applying at\\nShawmut Kennels,^\\nJ^ J^ 28 East 2 1 St Street, New York City.\\n103", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "Newq/istle Kennels,\\nBROOKLINE, MASS., U S. A.\\n1 Scottish Terriers I\\nAND f\\na\u00c2\u00bb^a-^a^a-^\u00c2\u00bb^a^a^\u00c2\u00bb^\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb a-\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb^a-^\u00c2\u00bb^a-*\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb\\nCocker Spaniels.\\nz ^s\\nt\u00c2\u00bb^a^\u00c2\u00bb^-a-^\u00c2\u00bb-a^\u00c2\u00ab^a^\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb^aoa\u00c2\u00bba\u00c2\u00bb a \u00c2\u00bba\u00c2\u00bba\u00c2\u00ab\\nASPECIALTY OF YOUNG STOCK FOR HEALTH AND STRENGTH.\\nOnly Pure Blood Stock Kept or Sold.\\nSuccessful Shipments to Every State in the Union,\\nAT STUD.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Black Cocker Spaniel.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fee $J0*\\nGONZALO.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. K. C. 45405.\\nA tine vigorous stock getten\\nAT STUD.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Scottish Terrier.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fee $10.\\nROSS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (Kilarn x Randy), Imp. J898.\\nA strong typical dog, very successful at stud.\\nParticulars of above on application and all letters promptly\\nanswered as to stock or stud service.\\n104", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Swiss Mountain Kennels,\\nBREEDERS and IMPORTERS of\\nFIELD SPANIELS,\\nCOCKER SPANIELS,\\nAND 5KYE TERRIERS.\\nYOUNG AND APPROVED STOCK ALWAYS FOR SALE,\\nCatalogues illustrated with half-tone pictures of the above\\nbreeds, kenne .s, tSic, 20 cents.\\nSWISS MOUNTAIN KENNELS.\\nGermantown, Philadelphia, Pa.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "^eDle Rapn^ J^er^nels\\nCHA3IPION VBNI^OTTA, A. K. C. S. B. 50, 576.\\n(A champion before twelve months old.)\\nJ^ HESE Kennels are exclusively devoted to\\nc^ Dachshu nd Breeding\\nand their unparalleled success has made ^VENLO\\na household word of the fancy J J J-\\nJ\u00e2\u0082\u00acf- HOUSE ^V\\nPUPPIES U/ ALL\\nBIOOD STUD DOQS, SHOW COLORS\\nBITCH S. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2li?*:^ _ ^\u00c2\u00a35^^ ^r^i- VARIETIES\\nA Dachshund is beyond doubt the sweetest, cleanest and\\nmost cheerful companion.\\nOORRESF-ON DEINCH; SOLICITED.\\nAddress, ^/q L. A. KLEIN,\\nCUTTENBURC, N. J.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE^InERKflN Pet Doq Kennel,\\nIMPORTER AND BREEDER OF\\nSHALL TET D0Q5,\\n0. 278 West lllh Street, NEW YORK. W. Y.\\nI he OUlest and Most Successful Breeder\\naud Exhibitor in America.\\nA Specialty in all kinds of\\nLADIES PET DOGS,\\nKing Charles Spanieic,\\nBlenheim Spaniels,\\nPrince Charles Spaniels,\\nRuby Spaniels.\\nDOGS IN THE STUD.\\nKING CHARLES SPANIEL.\\nCHAMPION ROMEO (9,230),\\nEeat Kintj of thp Charlies, who was\\nnever before beaten.\\nOLD GOLD (27,116).\\n(The Ruby Spaniel, one of the best\\ndogs in tlie Slud.)\\nJAPANESE SPANIEL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 KOBIE.\\nBeautifully coated. Weight, five pouncU\\nYORKSHIRE^ERRIERS.\\nASHTON PREMIER,\\nwinner of forty first prizes in Engl.-jud\\nWeight, five lbs.; twenty -six inches of co^t.\\nTED,\\nV. eight, five lbs,; fifteen inches of coat.\\nConstantly on hand\\nthe largest Stock of\\nJAPANESE SPANIELS\\nYorkshire Terriers,\\nWith the longest of coats\\nfrom T, to 6 pounds\\nin weight.\\nMaltese Terriers.\\nBlack and Tan\\nof the smallest breed.\\nPugs,\\nMinotaur Bred Pomeranians\\ni;Uick, White, Chocolate.\\nAddress, SENN,\\n278 West nth Street.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "It Catches\\nThe above cut shows the machine which will quickly and\\nthoroughly rid dogs or cats of fleas, without the use of un-\\npleasant concoctions. It has two combs of different fineness\\na coarse one to straighten the hair and a fine one to catch\\nthe fleas. It is easily cleaned and is becoming very widely\\nused THOUSANDS RECOMMEND IT.\\nNo. 1, for 8hort-IIalred DofiTH and Cats, ^1.60\\nNo. 2, for I^oiis-IIulred I oe\u00c2\u00bb, 1X5\\nNo. C, for Lonser-llalred or Shacsry l og;\u00c2\u00bb, 2.00\\nMARSH LABOR SAYING CO.,\\nCall for these Machines at Hardware\\nand Sporting Goods Stores.\\nBox 1006, Providence, R. I.", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Haas Bros.,\\nNEW YORKo\\nLadies^ Tailors.\\nDressmakers, Milliners.\\nSHIRT HAKERS.\\nlog", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "HE S DEAD.\\nOh, lay him gently in the ground,\\nAnd may his tomb be by this verse renowned\\nHere shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid.\\nWho fawned like man, but ne er like man betrayed.\\nA ideauUM burial 6pct-^\\n9et i^nimah.\\nFor All\\nIS THE\\n]ELL^OQD|\\\\[ ftTIQNAL (]EMETERY\\nBeautifully Situated on the Hudson,\\nNew YORK,\\nLots from $K00 per foot up. 5^\u00c2\u00ab^\\nBE A UTIFULL Y LAID UT and CAREB FOR.\\nSUPERINTENDENT ATTENDS TO INTERMENT.\\nYOU ONLY HAVE TO EXPRESS THE BODY.\\nA Devoted Pet fs Entitled to a DECENT BURIAL.\\nFULL PARTICULARS FROM\\nDell Wood National Cemetery,\\np. O BOX 1223. e?=--^NEW YORK CITY.\\nno", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "HE S DEAD.\\nOh, lay him gently in the ground,\\nAnd may his tomb be by this verse renowned\\nHere shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid.\\nWho fawned like man, but ne er like man betrayed.\\nM beautiful i^urial iipct-^\\n9ct i4nimaltf.\\nFor All\\nIS THE\\nQeLL^OOD ]\\\\J ATIQNAL [JEMETERY\\nBeautifully Situated on the Hudson,\\nHmW YORK.\\nLots from $L00 per foot up.t^\u00c2\u00ab^\\nBE A UTIFVLL Y LAID OUT and CARED FOR,\\nSUPERINTENDENT ATTENDS TO INTERMENT.\\nYOU ONLY HAVE TO EXPRESS THE BODY.\\nA Devoted Pet is Entitled to a DECENT BURIAL.\\nFULL PARTICULARS FROM\\nDell Wood National Cemetery,\\np. O BOX 1223. i?s. -^NEW YORK CITY.\\nIIO", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2527", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n002 857 017 P", "height": "2582", "width": "1933", "jp2-path": "housedogstheirca00plag_0120.jp2"}}