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Title: The encyclopaedia of the kennel : a complete manual of the dog, its varieties, physiology, breeding, training, exhibition and management, with articles on the designing of kennels
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Shaw, Vero Kemball
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London : George Routledge of Sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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tobe tempted by delicacies. Much depends, too, upon thestate of the health, as worms, for instance, usually promotea voracious appetite, and indigestion induces a repugnancefor food. (See Feeding, Gross Feeders, Indigestion, ShyFeeder, Worms,) Applehead.—A term applied to a round head, especi-ally by bulldog breeders. Arsenic is a valuable drug for administration in casesof skin disease, but being a deadly poison, and cumulativein its effects, it must be used with extreme caution.Fowlers solution is a very convenient form, the dosebeing from two to six drops twice a day after feeding.(See Poisons,) Arteries are the blood-vessels which convey the bloodfrom the heart to the different parts of the body. Whenan artery is severed the blood spurts from the woundinstead of trickling, as it does in the case of a vein beingcut through, and arterial blood is lighter in colour. (SeeBleeding, Capillaries, Cuts, Veins.) Asphalt paving possesses many good points as a 8 Ss-diZ^^^ ,-.< ^« c.^^
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.%? Z A STHMA —A USTRA LI AN TERRIER flooring for kennels, as it is easily laid, not expensive, andis readily swilled over with water. It is not, however, sowell adapted for outdoor yards, as it possesses a tendencyto become soft in hot weather. In this respect it is inferiorto cement, but it is warmer for the dogs to move aboutupon. (See Floors.) Asthma.—The presence of this may be detected by thetroubled, wheezy breathing of the dog and t;ie cracklingsound that is heard if the ear is placed to his chest. Thesesymptoms are frequently associated with vomiting andconstipation of the bowels. The treatment is to administera mild purgative and to feed at frequent intervals on smallquantities of underdone meat. For medicines, the pre-scriptions given by Mr. Sewell in ^The Dogs MedicalDictionary are most efficacious. Astringents create a contraction of tissue. (See Medi-cines?) Atavism is the term applied to the tendency to throwback—that is, to show a resemblance to some more orless

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