_Treatment_: Rest and free administration of laudanum, from two[1] to fifteen drops, given in water every four or six hours. In cases due to the impaction of some foreign body, as a stone, coin or key, etc., in the cæcum, which may easily be detected by means of the Röntgen rays, an operation is necessary. The cæcum may be removed with a certain amount of safety. =Appetite, Want of=: _Treatment_: When not the result of actual disease, but to want of tone of stomach, often seen in delicate dogs, try following mixture:— _Recipe_: Bicarbonate Soda, 12 grains to 1 drachm.[1] Spirits of Nitre, 1 to 4 drachms. Tincture Nux Vomica, 6 minims to ½ a drachm. Water to 1½ to 6 ounces. _Dose_: One teaspoonful to a tablespoonful[1] three times a day one hour before food. Try a change of food, as raw meat. For little dogs, grilled chicken’s liver or kidneys, with stale bread crumbs; also stewed rabbit with rice. =Appetite, Morbid=: _Symptoms_: Picking up and eating all kinds of rubbish and filth, stones, coal, and when out in the streets, horse dung, etc. _Treatment_: Always give worm medicine in these cases. Dust over anything you know the dog will pick up with some cayenne pepper. In many cases one is obliged to resort to a muzzle, and make the dog wear one when out. Very often when this is persisted in for some weeks, the dog gets out of the habit. =Arthritis, Inflammation of a Joint=: _Symptoms_: The joint is swollen and very painful; dog is very lame, and in some cases unable to put the foot to the ground. _Treatment_: During acute inflammation rest is necessary, soothing remedies should be applied, hot poppy-head tea fomentations, or the following lotion:— _Recipe_: Laudanum, 2 drachms. Goulard’s Extract of Lead, 1 drachm. Water to 6 ounces. A piece of lint, large enough to cover and go round the joint, should be saturated with the lotion and applied. This should be covered entirely over with a piece of oil silk, and a bandage applied to keep dressing in place. Change the dressing three times a day. A dose or two of aperient medicine should be given. When acute inflammation has ceased, the joint should be massaged, and later, if the joint remains stiff, the dog should be made to swim. =Asphyxia=: _Symptom_: Interruption to breathing, from drowning and other causes. _Treatment_: Dash hot and cold water alternately over the head, and inject stimulants, as ether or brandy, under skin—from ten[1] to twenty drops of either.