In cases due to the impaction of some foreign body, as a stone, coin or key, etc., in the cæcum, which may easily be detected by means of the Röntgen rays, an operation is necessary.
The cæcum may be removed with a certain amount of safety.
Appetite, Want of:
Treatment: When not the result of actual disease, but to want of tone of stomach, often seen in delicate dogs, try following mixture:—
Recipe:
| Bicarbonate Soda, | 12 grains to 1 drachm.[1] |
| Spirits of Nitre, | 1 to 4 drachms. |
| Tincture Nux Vomica, | 6 minims to ½ a drachm. |
| Water to | 1½ to 6 ounces. |
Dose: One teaspoonful to a tablespoonful[1] three times a day one hour before food. Try a change of food, as raw meat. For little dogs, grilled chicken’s liver or kidneys, with stale bread crumbs; also stewed rabbit with rice.
Appetite, Morbid:
Symptoms: Picking up and eating all kinds of rubbish and filth, stones, coal, and when out in the streets, horse dung, etc.
Treatment: Always give worm medicine in these cases. Dust over anything you know the dog will pick up with some cayenne pepper. In many cases one is obliged to resort to a muzzle, and make the dog wear one when out. Very often when this is persisted in for some weeks, the dog gets out of the habit.