Canine pathology; or, a description of the diseases of dogs, nosologically arranged, with their causes, symptoms, and curative treatment; preceded by a sketch of the natural history of the dog; with practical directions on the breeding, rearing, and salutary treatment of these animals / [Delabere Pritchett Blaine].

  • Blaine, Delabere (Delabere Pritchett), 1770-1845.
Date:
1841
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Credit: Canine pathology; or, a description of the diseases of dogs, nosologically arranged, with their causes, symptoms, and curative treatment; preceded by a sketch of the natural history of the dog; with practical directions on the breeding, rearing, and salutary treatment of these animals / [Delabere Pritchett Blaine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mixed with them. Potatoes, even without meal, will be found to form a good food for dogs which are not wanted for very active exertion ; they are cooling, and, when mixed with milk or butter- milk, are sufficiently nutritious for all common purposes, and form in this way an economical and wholesome food: if they are not re- lished alone, a small proportion of greaves or other fatty matter, may be added, which will make them palatable. When circum- stances render it absolutely necessary to feed principally on either barley or oat meal, the heating effects may be also greatly obviated by mixing it with buttermilk. In all cases likewise of eruptive affection, as mange, canker, &c., buttermilk will be found to pos- sess something of a curative as well as preventive quality. In the feeding of favourites, much error is frequently com- mitted ; for their tastes being consulted, they are too apt to be wholly fed on flesh, and this in great quantities too. In such cases, although the evil is acknowledged, yet it is alleged that the animals will not eat any other food ; it is, however, always in the power of those who feed them to bring them to live on vegetables entirely even if it be desired; but it requires, in some cases, con- siderable determination and perseverance. If the usual quantity of meat a dog eats be minced extremely fine, and a small portion of mashed potatoes be mixed with it, it will not be possible for him to separate the animal from the vegetable portion : if he refuses to eat the mixture, let it remain until hunger obliges him to do it. At each meal, a very small additional quantity of potatoes may be added; and this practice, if persisted in, will bring him at last to live almost wholly on potatoes, or any other vegetable that may be selected. In a medical point of view, a vegetable diet is often very important. In many cases a complete change of food forms the very best alterative; and, in others, it is a most excellent auxiliary to the curative treatment which is to be adopted. The cases that require a change from an animal to a vegetable diet are frequent: all eruptive diseases; all fat and plethoric dogs ; all coughs, de- pendent on congestion or repletion; and various other inflamma-