Divide into 12 pills.
Sometimes it is difficult to give a dog a pill. In these cases, a powder may be administered, as jalapin. Two grains is the dose for a very small dog, and twelve grains for a big one like a great Dane or St. Bernard. It may be just shaken dry on the tongue or mixed with a little thick gruel.
The following is a good cathartic pill for dogs varying in size from a fox-terrier to the biggest kind:—
Recipe:
| Barbadoes Aloes, | 24 grains. |
| Gamboge, | 12 ” |
| Jalap, | 24 ” |
| Colocynth, | 12 ” |
| Powdered Soap, | 12 ” |
| Calomel, | 12 ” |
| Gingerine, | 3 ” |
| Excip. sufficient. | |
| Mix. | |
Divide into 12 pills—one, two, three, or four[1] to be give on an empty stomach.
In cases of skin disease, when purgative medicine is necessary, Epsom salts is the best. The dose varies from fifteen grains to one ounce,[1] given in some sweetened milk.
Purpura:
Symptoms: Extravasation of blood into the skin in very small pin-like spots, or may be in large patches. They are first bright red, then turn darker, and afterwards become brown in colour. The same symptoms may occur on the tongue, also the cheek, and on the white parts of the eye, and they occur also on the internal organs.
Treatment: When the spots are very small and few in number, no notice need be taken of them; but when there are large patches of extravasated blood, give from half a grain[1] to two grains of ergotine with double the quantity of reduced iron, made into a pill, two or three times a day. After a few days, commence a course of arsenic, give from one[1] to six drops of liquor arsenic (P.B.) three times a day in water after food.