The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dogSewell, Alfred Joseph
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The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dog
Sewell, Alfred Joseph
Dogs -- Diseases -- Dictionaries
The whole rabbit should be cut up in small pieces, including the liver;
the leg bones should be cracked, the heads split open, and the whole
stewed in a pint of water for some hours; then strained off, and if there
is more than half a pint reduce it to that quantity, and set aside to
cool. This may be given either cold or hot; a small quantity at a time,
as it is, if made as directed, very strong.
Fish boiled in water, or boiled in milk; and a capital fish soup is made
by stewing white fish, such as whiting, in milk for some time, and then
straining off and giving the soup to drink. Also boiled fish stewed with
rice makes a good food, and the different kinds of fish alone boiled.
A food of this kind may be given to a dog even when he has a fever,
especially if he will take it himself.
Sheep’s brains boiled in milk make an excellent and tempting food.
Calves’ sweet-breads also boiled, or even grilled, dogs are very fond of.
Chickens’ livers grilled make an appetising dish for a dog; and when
a dog is convalescent, and the temperature is normal, he may be even
tempted to eat by offering grilled meat.
Milk of course is one of the best and most nourishing diets, and when
the dog is very weak the white of one egg to every cup of milk is very
strengthening food. For a change, milk, with plasmon added, should be
given, but too much of this latter food must not be given to dogs with a
high temperature.
Sanatogen is a most excellent, strengthening, and easily-digested food.
Dogs will often retain this when they are unable to take any other food.
Benger’s food with milk is also an easily-digested food, as it is
partially predigested. Cases often arise when a dog cannot possibly
retain anything in the stomach, then it is necessary to give nourishment
by the rectum, and it is astonishing what a long while a dog can be kept
alive and fairly strong in this way.
The best kinds of food for giving by rectum are peptonised milk, or
peptonised beef-tea, and peptonised beef suppositories. Burroughs
Wellcome’s are good nutritive suppositories. As to the quantity of milk
to be given per rectum, from one[1] to eight tablespoonfuls, just warmed,
every three or four hours alternatively with one of Burroughs Wellcome’s
meat suppositories.
In giving a nutritive enema, care must be taken to pass it very slowly
into the bowel so as not to excite action, or the enema will be
immediately rejected, and afterwards just raise the hind-quarters a
little bit so that the fluid runs well into the body, and hold the tail
down for a few minutes so that it cannot escape.
The milk can be peptonised with Fairchild’s peptonised powders, which can
be bought at any chemist’s shop.
Brand’s meat essences are excellent foods in cases of stomach disorders.
Benger’s peptonised beef jelly is a very easily digested preparation, and
very useful in cases of severe vomiting.
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