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Title: Breeding, training, management, diseases & c. of dogs:
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Butler, Francis, 1810-1874. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Dog. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Brooklyn, D. S. Holmes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sun are among the principal preven-tives. This running appears to be a naturalleak of the system, and unless the health boattended ta. no local application will be avail-ing. I am by profession neither Surgeon norOculist, therefore I shall not enlarge on thedifferent affections of tiie eye, nor infringe onits anatomical technicalities, fts I am not wri-ting a medical work, but propose simply togive the results of my own personal experience.For any serious operation on the eye, I wouldrefer my readers to some competent surgeon oroculist, advising them by no means to risk itthemselves. Tf requisite, soft lukewarm poul-tices of bread and water, bread and milk, flax-seed, ^c. may be applied with advantage, Avhereinflammation arises from any cause whatever :as to ))utting on and keeping them in place, itmust be left to the best judgm.ent of the ownerof the patient. To keep the eye in a healthystate, especially in animals of high bi-eed anddelicate constitutions, cvcrvthiiio: gross in diet
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CHINESE HAIRLESS DOG. Of goodly lorm, oft portly, plump and round ;In every clime occasionally is found ;Of liigh repute, in that celestial sphere,Wiiere dogs are dainties and fat pork is dear.Called Turkisli, South American, Chinese :Tho fitted best, Jolin Chinaman to please ;For tastes refined and Epicures decreed,Good roasted, boiled, fried, stewed or fricasseed;Guards well the house, and keeps the thief at bay ;Docs useful errands, for Jie folks by day;Bai-ks at their pigtails, licks their stunted feet,And grubs his hasty living in the street ;But woe betide him, when for cooking fit;It bodes him not, his merit orhis wit;Doomed to the oven, or frying-pan his lot,His grave the stewpan, or his tomb the pot.Douljtless well known, in ancient days was he,Ages before the Anno Domini ;They say Confucius fared on Canine stew,And sent Pythagoras a chop or two.Bet as it may. yet dare not raise a laugh,Such menial hounds inspire no epitaph ;llicy crave for food, that they rsay fat th« faste

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