Harvest Bugs:
Symptoms: A collection of very small red insects looking almost like red sand on different parts of the body and limbs, causing irritation and scratching.
Treatment: Washing the parts daily for a few days with kerosene one part, and butter milk six parts, mixed together; or Pearson’s disinfectant fluid diluted eighty times with water will destroy them.
Heart Disease:
Symptoms: Heart affections are not particularly common in the dog, except perhaps in Japanese spaniels, and I should think at least a third of these dogs, by the time they are five years old, suffer from some form of heart trouble, principally valvular or dilated heart, which gives rise to difficulty in breathing, especially after exertion, a dry cough, occasionally fainting and loss of condition. Later, as the disease progresses, other complications arise, as enlargement of the liver and dropsy (ascites).
Treatment: Keep dog as quiet as possible; do not allow any hard exercise or running upstairs. Feed on a meat diet, and occasionally give a course of following mixture:—
Recipe:
| Tincture Digitalis, | 2 drachms. |
| Tincture Nux Vomica, | 1 drachm. |
| Simple Syrup, | 1 ounce. |
| Water to | 6 ounces. |
Doses: From one teaspoonful to a tablespoonful[1] three times a day, after food.
It is important to keep bowels open by occasionally giving aperient medicine. If cough very troublesome, give two or three times a day, made into a pill, from ⅟₅₀th[1] to ⅟₂₀th of a grain of hydrate of heroin, with from half[1] to two grains of hydrate of terpin.