. Diseases of dogs, their causes, symptoms, and treatment to which are added instructions in cases of injury and poisoning. Dogs. Fleas QPuleiB serratioeps, Fig. 17) are familiar to most dog- owners, and with their very lively propensities are more mischievous and annoying, if leas disgusting, than the lice which, with them, infest and torment the dog. Numerous are the means suggested for the destruction of fleas, and scores of drugs, simple and compound, are in vogue for this purpose. For pet dogs I do not think there is anything at once so innocent, so clean, and so efiective, as Keating's P
. Diseases of dogs, their causes, symptoms, and treatment to which are added instructions in cases of injury and poisoning. Dogs. Fleas QPuleiB serratioeps, Fig. 17) are familiar to most dog- owners, and with their very lively propensities are more mischievous and annoying, if leas disgusting, than the lice which, with them, infest and torment the dog. Numerous are the means suggested for the destruction of fleas, and scores of drugs, simple and compound, are in vogue for this purpose. For pet dogs I do not think there is anything at once so innocent, so clean, and so efiective, as Keating's Persian Insect Powder; the price alone is against it, that being un- necessarily high. It con- sists, I believe, of the powdered flowers of Pt/- rethrum roseum, and is used in a dry state by simply rubbing it into the roots of the hair or blowing it in with' suit- able miniature bellows, which are sold for that purpose by most chem- ists. The best article of the kind I have seen is one of French manu- facture, worked by a small jjiston, acting on a spring of spiral wire, covered with a piece of glazed calico, the whole neatly encased in tin, with an aperture at the bottom for filling with powder. The powder is blown out of a long spout with such force as to spread it among the roots of the hair. The whole apparatus, when iiUed, costs only Is. Within the last few years a large trade has sprung up in " dog soaps,"most of them depending on carbolic acid for their flea-destroy- ing properties, and all of them claiming special virtues in improving the dog's coat, curing mange, getting liim in condition, and all the rest of it. Professor Williams, of Edinburgh, strongly condemns the use of carbolic acid soap on the dog. And I myself have had convincing proofs of the ill effects of carbolic acid and carbolic acid soaps on dogs, and have seen that the acid, even in the mild form of. Fig. 17. The Dog Flea, with ORniNAEY Flea SHOWH ABOVE. (Both much magnifled.). Please note that
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