The encyclopaedia of the kennel - a complete manual of the dog, its varieties, physiology, breeding, training, exhibition and management, with articles on the designing of kennels (1913) (14764921301)

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Title: The encyclopaedia of the kennel : a complete manual of the dog, its varieties, physiology, breeding, training, exhibition and management, with articles on the designing of kennels
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Shaw, Vero Kemball
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London : George Routledge of Sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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but injurious adjuncts to a kennel, besideswhich they are a constant source of danger, owing to thepossibihty of their setting fire to the place. Very fewhealthy dogs, unless under very exceptional circumstances,are benefited by being kept in an artificially warmed atmos-phere, but in the case of delicate toys and sick animals itis different. (See Hospital.) Strains. (See Sprains.) Straw is the best bedding that a dog can have, andwheaten straw is preferable to either barley or oat. (SeeBedding^ Stud-dog. (See Selection of Stud-dog^ Sulphur, in the form of flowers or milk of sulphur, isa most excellent medicine for use when the blood is heated,and may be given internally in milk, the dose being abouta teaspoonful for a large dog. Sulphur is also used success-fully as an ointment when mixed with lard, and often withother materials, in cases of eczema and mange ; which see. Suppositories are cone-shaped mixtures of cocoa-butterand oil mixed with drugs, and made sufficiently hard to 184
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SURFEIT—SUSSEX SPANIEL enable them to be forced up the rectum in cases where itis necessary to adopt the method of administering medicineby the bowel. They are also used in cases of inflammationof the rectum, piles, and haemorrhoids; which see. Surfeit is the result of injudicious feeding and the wantof proper exercise, which combine in upsetting the stomachand heating the blood, with the result that inflamed patchesbreak out all over the body, and from these a disagreeable,sticky discharge appears. Subsequently scabs form, andwhen these come off bare patches are left. The treatmentis similar to red mange; which see. Sussex Spaniel.—This variety is no doubt one of themost ancient of the British breeds, and in the opinion ofseveral writers of authority the taproot from which thesetter originated. For many years the Rosehill strain wasthe source from which the finest Sussex spaniels of theday had sprung, but the fortunes of the breed began todecline more than a generation ago, with