Recipe: The Mixture:
| Tincture Nux Vomica, | 40 minims. |
| Diluted Nitro-hydrochloric Acid, | 1 drachm. |
| Compound Tincture Gentian, | 5 drachms. |
| Simple Syrup, | 1 ounce. |
| Water to | 6 ounces. |
Dose: From one teaspoonful to a tablespoonful three times a day.[1]
It is not necessary to take notice of a relaxed condition of the bowels so long as the motions are not very frequent, but diarrhœa (frequent watery motions) must not be allowed to go on. As a rule, a small dose of castor oil—say from one teaspoonful[1] to a tablespoonful—will usually stop it by removing the cause. If it continues after the oil has acted, give, shaken dry on the tongue, from 3[1] to 15 grains of salicylate of bismuth three or four times, or oftener, a day. Thicken the food with cooked arrowroot, and give boiled rice with soup and meat if the latter is being given.
If bismuth does not stop the diarrhœa, try the pills as per prescription below:—
Recipe: The Pills for Diarrhœa:
| Powdered Extract of Kino, | 1 drachm. |
| Powdered Ipecacuanha, | 8 grains. |
| Powdered Opium, | 6 ” |
| Mix, and divide into 12 pills. | |
Dose: From half to two pills to be given three or four times a day.[1]
In complications affecting the lungs, as soon as they are noticed the chest should be sewn up in gamgee wool covered over with flannel. I have no faith in ordinary liniments; and poultices, unless they are applied by a professional hand, often do more harm than good. In very acute cases the hair may be closely cut off over a small patch on each side of the chest, and strong liniment of iodine applied with a camel’s-hair brush. This may be repeated in four hours, and again four hours later, if the application has not made the skin inflamed and swollen. Of course, the size of the patch must vary according to the size of the dog—from a five-shilling piece to the palm of the hand.