The dog in health and The dog in health and in disease : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education, and general management in health, and his treatment in disease doginhealthindis00mill Year: 1895 Fig. 39.—Administration of Medicines * (Mathkw). form of small pills, which may be pushed into little pieces of meat and dropped in the dog's way. Strychnine when undisguised, from its bitterness, will not be readily taken ; but, as dogs bolt their food, even the crystals may be in- serted in a pellet of meat, butter, etc., and the deadly dose be swallowed. Occasionally dogs roa
The dog in health and The dog in health and in disease : including his origin, history, varieties, breeding, education, and general management in health, and his treatment in disease doginhealthindis00mill Year: 1895 Fig. 39.—Administration of Medicines * (Mathkw). form of small pills, which may be pushed into little pieces of meat and dropped in the dog's way. Strychnine when undisguised, from its bitterness, will not be readily taken ; but, as dogs bolt their food, even the crystals may be in- serted in a pellet of meat, butter, etc., and the deadly dose be swallowed. Occasionally dogs roaming the woods find poison laid out for wild animals. Dogs are not infrequently poisoned by 'rough on rats-' (arsenic) or other similar vermin poisons, and ex- treme precautions should be observed, for it is to be re- membered that the fatal poisoning of a dog is far more effectually secured by a moderate than a large quantity of the agent. The stomach may at once reject a large amount, while a smaller portion is likely to be retained long enougli to accomplish the fatal purpose. Many a * This cut was accidently omitted from the section on the Adminis- tration of Medicines, page 195.
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