"These simple and harmless tablets will first digest the food and enable the dog to assimilate it. They soothe and tone up the inflamed intestinal conditions and gradually make a dog's-appetite good again and slowly but surely bring about the conditions which permit healthy, well formed feces. When this is accomplished more than half the battle is fought, for so long as the dog is running off in a diarrheal condition the distemper germ seems to thrive, producing all sorts of gastrical and intestinal troubles, which are difficult to cure. Many make the mistake of treating with stringents for diarrhea, which naturally only cause more harm, as the cause is not first removed. There need be no fear whatever in the moderate use of these tablets, for they can produce no harmful effects whatever, and even should they be given without sufficient cause therefor existing, they would be but a tonic and help to any normal conditions. All dogs (especially puppies) are prone to overeat, bolt their food and tax too greatly their digestive organs. Dogs in their tramp and native state have no such troubles. While our modern blooded breeding has given us unbroken lineage in fine pedigrees, the dog constitution, due perhaps to the confined kennel life most have to put up with, is not as vigorous at it would otherwise be. Many a stud dog and brood bitch hardly ever get out of a kennel yard! need it be wondered at, then, that the blue-blooded puppies inherit digestive organs that need some help now and then, and are susceptible subjects of contagion which develops at most shows? Fresh air and nice quarters tend to produce a healthy environment in a kennel, but as the young puppie adds bone and tissue much faster than is generally considered, the organs that are responsible for this growth, great in proportion to size as it is, and speedy development, need as much general support as it is possible to give them.

"If your patient is well advanced in the purulent mucus discharge or acute bronchial stage, before you get at him, which is usual in the experience of amateurs, begin at once and conform rigidly to treat as heretofore suggested, adding the possible help of some distemper medicine. While these undoubtedly when properly used are very helpful, they are at best but stimulating tonics and fever medicines, and it is well to have on hand whichever one you find gives good results. Should the patient show general debility and indications of the disease rather generally poisoning the system - in fact, if the nasal form develops, lose no time in arranging to put in a seton. Any veterinary can do it, but you can do it yourself fully as well, as follows: Clip the hair on neck back of skull close to skin for three or four inches square. Secure a piece of ordinary (tarred) tarpaulin or common hemp cord, which should be soaked in a solution of carbolic acid and water. Cut cord at length of eight or ten inches. Catch one end of it in the joint of a pair of small curved sharp-pointed nail scissors or sail-cloth needle; hold skin just below occiput of skull bone, well up away from inner tissues and puncture point through from one side of neck to the other, drawing cord through so that holes will be about two inches apart; tie good large knots in each end of cord, dressing at first with antiseptic vaseline, and leave it in for from five to ten days, dependent upon profuseness of discharge. Draw cord from knot to knot each day often, in order to keep outlet free. The insertion of this seton is not particularly painful, as it passes through the outer skin covering only, and can do no harm whatever. It should be kept as clean as possible. It acts as a counter irritant and drains off from the system a large amount of poisonous accumulations and will very soon relieve the head of the acute troubles there concentrated.

In almost all cases where the seton is used soon enough its aid is largely responsible for safe recovery. The writer has seen most wonderful cures by its assistance in the last stages of the disease. It use is of English origin, and one theory advanced to explain its benefit in dogs is that as a dog perspires only through the glands of nose and mouth, and never through the outer skin and coat, this outlet affords an immediate drain much needed to carry off the poisonous accumulations about the inner body tissues. When the system is generally much poisoned with effects of distemper, this drain is very beneficial and never harmful. Leave it in until the discharge begins to subside, then cut one end of the cord and take it out. Keep sore clean until healed, which will be accomplished within a few days, and in a month a new growth of coat will have covered up the effect of this treatment, so that no scars are left as a blemish on the patient's neck.

Many dog owners have special food theories for distemper, a popular delusion being that meat fed to young dogs produces distemper. All young dogs should have meat in moderation, and don't forget that dogs need salt in their food, as well as the human race and animals. The frequent continual diet absolutely without salt is sufficient to cause most any kind of ailment. The writer's observation has been that a dog in distemper gets along best when given limited quantities of what it craves, three to five times daily, always bearing in mind the aim to make the stomach's work easy. Raw (fresh) beef cut fine on bread, fed three or four times daily, is most excellent. If milk is relied upon, sterilize it (rather than boil) and give in moderate quantities. Raw eggs with milk is generally very good and strengthening. Avoid alcoholic stimulants, except when dog is badly off, then give whiskey and quinine as tonic, and maybe a little port wine with milk. The following few important and brief "dont's" will aid some as occasional reminders and cautions, viz.:

Don't pour food down a sick dog when he hasn't the ability to either hold or digest it. It only makes him worse. Don't exercise a dog sick with distemper.