Facts and Useful Hints Relating to Fishing and Shooting: Being a Collection of Various Methods for Capturing Birds, Beasts, Vermin, and Fish; Together With a Great Variety of Recipes of All Kinds Useful to the Fisherman and Sportsman. to Which Is Added a List of Recipes for the Management And.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. ... APPENDIX. EECIPES FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND CUBE OF DISEASED DOGS. BITES. Dog Bites.--Sprinkle over the wounds a powder, consisting of equal parts of pulverised alum, sulphate of iron, and myrrh. Vipers' Bites.--The immediate consequence of the bite is considerable inflammation, with an indication of much suffering on the part of the dog. It is said the common burdock will effect a cure. Slice or scrape a large handful of the root, and pour upon it about two quarts of boiling water When this infusion is cool, foment the bitten part with it many times a day, and pour about half a wine-glass of it down the dogs' throat three or four times a day. Warm sweet oil applied externally, and brandy internally, together with warm bathing, will speedily effect a cure. Viper's fat applied externally and olive oil given internally is a remedy. In any case, the dog ought to be sent home immediately, and he should have as much milk to drink as he can swallow, as he will not be able to partake of anything solid under two or three days. Spirits of hartshorn mixed with the olive oil will also be found an excellent remedy as an external application. Volatile alkali is also another specific, administered internally with the oil, from six to twelve drops, according to the size of the dog; it also may be applied externally. The part bitten must be kept continually moist with the oil and hartshorn. If you can detect the bite, apply laudanum first, and then saturate the part with oil, permitting the patient to drink a teacupful of the oil if he will take it.. Or, if you observe the adder's bite soon after it has been given, scraped chalk, or soda, may be rubbed upon the bite with good effect, as it will absorb the poison not already taken into the circulation. ...