Dogs are subject to a dry, husky cough, associated with derangement of the stomach, and worms are often the originating cause. The symptoms are dry. hot nose, disagreeable breath, inflamed eye, and increased discharge from nose, with more or less general fever; the dog after coughing retches, bringing up portions of frothy mucus. The treatment consists in keeping the dog free from damp and cold,' feeding on warm, easily digested food, and the administration of a dose of salad oil every third morning, and the following two sets of pills, two a day of each, giving alternately:

Pills For Husky Cough

Powdered opium, 6 grains; tartarised antimony, 1 grain; compound squill pill, 1 dram; mix and divide into twenty-four pills, and give one to a 20 lb. dog twice a day.

Tonic Stomachic Pills

Pure Sulphate of iron, 12 grains; dried bicarbonate of soda, 24 grains; extract of camomile, 24 grains; mix and divide into twelve pills. One of these is a dose for a 20 lb. dog. Not infrequently worms in the stomach will cause husk; if so, a full dose of ipecacuanha wine to cause vomiting should be given.

As I am writing I have just had such a case of a dry, hard and incessant cough in an eight-months-old bull terrier pup, which cough suddenly appeared without any apparent cause, the dog acting and seeming well, only for this dry, hard cough. She had been fully, as I supposed at the time, treated for worms, and thought she was rid of them, but could not account for the cough. I was on the lookout and seen her have a passage of a bloody and mucous nature. Toward night I concluded it might be worms, gave her a dose of Sergeant's Sure Shot after she had fasted from breakfast till supper time, and the result was - finding several small thread worms in her passage after the vermifuge had worked, and here was the cause of the dry, hard cough. I followed this up the next morning with a second dose of "Sure Shot," got more thread worms, and the bitch feeling much better, wanting to eat, and her cough very much better. She fully recovered. All this goes to show that you must get rid of the Worms - as they are the cause of more trouble to dogs than from any other cause or a combined lot of causes, you may as truthfully say.