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The Diseases of Dogs, and Their Hom?opathic Treatment
The Diseases of Dogs and Their Homopathic Treatment Author:James Moore General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1863 Original Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you c... more »an select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: III. -- The Remedies. The medicines prescribed in this work, and used in my practice, are internal and external. The internal are in three forms : -- , Pilules, which are non-medicinal vehicles, saturated with a certain dilution of any given medicine. They are specially suitable for small dogs, when it is necessary to give medicine either from the dog refusing, or being unable, to take it. 2. Tinctures, or alcoholic solutions of the remedy, varying in the dilution, and given mixed with a little milk or water, which most dogs will readily take. 3. Triturations, in which the crude drug is minutely subdivided, by being rubbed up with a non-medicinal substance in certain fixed proportions. These are not much used. A table giving the scientific and common names of the remedies, and the dilution of each most useful in the ordinary run of cases, will be found in the Appendix. A list of the external remedies will also be furnished in the same place, giving directions how they are prepared, and in what diseases they are useful or indispensable. IV. -- What Dose To Give. The following directions on this point apply to all the medicines mentioned in this work, and should be followed out, except when the dose is specially stated under the " treatment." The plan here adopted is preferred to that of giving each dose after each medicine, to save space for practical matter. The dose varies with the size and age of the patient. The average quantity required in most diseases is as follows: -- Pilules, .... One pilule for small dogs. Tinctures,. . . From one to three dro...« less