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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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on salt will generally greatly relieve thesuffering, by cleansing the diseased part, rid-ding it of purulent matter and perhaps burst-ing the sore. J3ut with all swellings in the in-terior of the mouth and neck, I recommend theanimals being safely chained, a3 he will some-times becomes exceedingly irritable; so much so,as not to produce IIydroi)holjia, but such anervous timidity (I presume) that he dreads theapproach of any one, and is willing to attackanything, in apparent self defence. I haveseen several cases of this kind, where my ad-vice has been luckily attended to, thus avoid-ing any amount of alarm, if not of decideddanger. For all disorders of the neck, thront,Sec, the bowels should be kept in a pi-operstate, the diet should be light, and the dogshould be kept as quiet as possible. When heis unable to eat solid food, he should be suppliedwith soup, milk, &c. A teaspoon of olive-oil,now and then will afford thetiroat some relief,as well as impart nourishment to the animal.
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PUG-DOG. Black nose, with body brown and curly tail,Old fasliion Pug I Come tell us whence youi hail I Thy race declines, thy former history fades,Tlio once the idol of forlorn old maids.And t were as well ; thy compact form displayaFar nobler traits than speak thy meaner ways :Pugnacious front, round head and daring eye,Thy bumps renowned Phrenoloarists defy.With noisy yelp, both friend and foe he hail?,But briskly flies, when ought of pluck assails ;Growls at tlie moon, and starts at every crack,And at the sound of danger, turns his back.Doubtful his pedigree, his origin obtuse,Tis clear hes more for ornament than use ;Yet still, with all his faulte, there surely isSomething unique about his matchless j)hiz.lie must have thought how men could be such brutes,To pluck his liearing organs by the roots ;A fancy notion, say they, of the man,A Ilollander, who brought him from Japan.Companion of the gentler sex alone,Tis thought that hence he might have timid grown ;If true it be that mann

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