Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-03-23
THE CANINE HOSPITAL.
A PECULIAR INSTITUTION IN
NEW VORk.
0eeterias Dogs fer Al Kinds 81
Diseases. AZ IN 0thsr Swell Places
che Doctors Fee are Heavy.

oeeterias Dogs fer Al Kinds 81
Diseases. A. IN othsr Swell, Places
che 0eeters' Fee ere Hsavy.
There are babies hospitals. WON.
ems hospitals, city hospitals and
hospitals for almost every human
need in this great city. writes u New
York correspondent But lately the
hospital service has been extended so
as to take in and provide for dogs.
aud OF Fifty-fourth street, between
Sixth and Seventh avenues, there is
a hourishing dog hospital
IL your hundred dollar pet lap dog
has a slight cold, or has been ex.
posed to grip, you can come between
the hours OF 3 and 5 o'clock any
afternoon with the patient aud have
him examined and prescribed for in
the most skillful aud scientific man.
ner. IL the cold Is serious. and there
are complications Of cough and fever,
you will have to enter him as house
patient and leave him to be treated
In the hospital
The hospital occupies a.number OF
bright, CHEEKY. sunny rooms over II
long row OF beautifully built and
kept terra Gotta and red pressed
brick stables. There IRE separate
rooms for the several diseases to
which dog flesh Is heir. and these
rooms are subdvided into wards, just
as In n real hospital. There are
towering plants in the windows,
snowy white draperies and hangings
and tiny little white enamelod iron
beds. all rallied round. and soft wool
blankets, which are kept spotlessly
clean and sweet. 1t usually falls to
the lot OF the footman or coachma an
to bring the sick dog TO the hospital,
but 1t often happens, especially IL
the pet is unusually valuable. or very
sick, that the mistress herself drives
up to the door. mounts the short
flight Of steps with the little patient
snugly folded In her arms.
These little animals are 80 wise
and so loving that they seem almost
human to their owners. and to see
them suffer affects them as the SUI.
fering Of q little, helpless child does
most women. Many are the real
groans and the tears shed when the
owner Is informed that the patient Is
really III and must remain for ten
days or . week to be regularly and
systematically treated. The sick
dogs are usually the tiny little pet
dogs, and their usual trouble Is q
bad attack OF indigestion from too
many grilled bones or too much
cream on their porridge.
The little Japanese spaniels and
the Mexican hairless dogs often SUI
Ter from pneumonia, and sometimes
die OF consumption. Coming from n
warmer climate. they cannot stand
the severe winter. These little
patients are brought In their silk
lined beribboned baskets, and their
owner pleads hard to have them con.
tinue to sleep and rest In their luxu.
riots little nests, but the superin.
tendent is firm, and doggie Is re.
iicvcd OF oil superflous wraps and
trimmings and given good warm
bath as soon as he Is entered on the
books rs fullhedged patient.
The doctor makes a thorough OK.
animation and then the men who
serve as nurses put the little patient
In one OF the iron bedsteads and tuck
him In securely. A ticket fastened
to the head Of the bed tells the name.
owner. date OF admission aud diag.
nosis. so that never by any possibility
could there be q mixture OF pets.
many OF whom are so much alike
that the precaution OF labelling them
IL very wise one.
At regular intervals the dogs are
carefully fed with milk and cruel,
and their medicine IL administered
from slender china feeding tube o,
from a spoon, whichever Is most
agreeable to tho cranky patients. fol
the dogs resent having strange
hands laid upon them. for the ma
jority are badly spoiled by their in.
dulgent mistresses. From 3 until )
o'clock are the visiting hours, and
most OF the owners drop In to see
and cheer the little sufferers and to
bring them some dainty bit which
they are accustomed to have a'
home.
There Is great rejoicing when the
patient Is pronounced cured and II
put back into the little basket and
borne home In triumph; but, on the
other hand. when one has to 20 ia
the land where all good dogs 60 there
Is lamentation and weeping ant
mourning.
Two dollars Ii the fee for prescrib
ing for dog which is brought as al
out Of door patient to the hospital
the medicines, OF course. are extra
$40 will nay for . week ct the hos
pital with tho very best care and at
DENTON which 1t would be possible
even for baby to have. Some
cases. where the trouble Ii q broker
foot or dislocated limb, are taker
at A6 or rs. varying rs to the amount
OF care which must be given them.
How to Treat Q Cold.