Kennel secrets - how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs (1904) (14586718388)

Identifier: kennelsecretshow00perr (find matches)
Title: Kennel secrets : how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Perry, Joseph Franklin, 1846-
Subjects: Dogs Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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on of the worms upon the head centre ofthe nervous system, the same being exhibited by convul-sions. While both the worm medicines advised are practicallyharmless they sometimes cause symptoms with which thereader should be familiar, for otherwise he might be madeuneasy by them. Slight frothing at the mouth, evidentlya disposition to spit, and shaking the head for a few min-utes, are induced by the unpleasant taste of the drugs. 330 KENNEL SECRETS. Nausea is another occasional symptom; and it is well toadd that it is generally excited in young puppies by allmedicines that contain considerable quantities of castoroil; and while puppies six weeks old or older often findrelief from it in vomiting it rarely occurs at an earlier age.For a time the little patients are in some instances moreor less sluggish or as many are wont to say, dumpish ;they are then disinclined to move about much or nurse,and generally soon fall asleep, to wake up in the course ofan hour as bright and active as ever.
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(■^ »-^,./v«;. /IV i<lW~^^ CHAPTER IX. POTENT WORM-DESTROYERS. After puppies have passed the tenth week the mildestof the medicines advised, mixture No. i, can be laid aside— in a cool place if it is to be kept — and No. 2 usedthereafter, in the same way as during the earlier age. For puppies of large and medium-sized varieties, thedose of No. 2 should be the same — one teaspoonful — upto the fourth month, when iti»can be increased one-half;that is, one teaspoonful and one-half can be given at onedose. From the fourth month this dose should be per-sisted in until the seventh month, when another increaseof one-half a teaspoonful can be made. In other words,such puppies seven months old can take two teaspoonfulsof No. 2 at a single dose. At the tenth month another increase of one-half a tea-spoonful will be allowable with No. 2; and this made, thedose will be two and one-half teaspoonfuls. Three months later, or at the thirteenth month, still an-other increase of one-hal