Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-03-14
THE CANINE HOSPITAL,
a PECULIAR INSTITUTION IN
NEW YORK.


DoctorIns Dogs for All Kinds o'
Diseases AZ In Other Swell Places
the Doctors Fee are Heavy.
There are babies hospitals. WON.
ems hospitals, city hospitals and
hospitals for almost every human
need in this great city, writes New
York correspondent But lately the
hospital service has been extended SC
as to take in aud provide for dogs,
and ON Fifty-fourth street, between
Sixth and Seventh avenues, there is
fiourishing dog hospital
If your hundred dollar pet lap dog
has slight cold, or has been ex-
posed to grip, you can come between
the hours OF 8 and o'clock any
afternoon with the patient and have
him examined and prescribed for in
the most skillful and scientific man.
ner. If 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 number OF
bright, CHEEKY, sunny rooms over a
long row OF beautifully built and
kept terra Gotta and red pressed
brick stables. There are separate
rooms for the several diseases to
which dog flesh is heir, and these
rooms are subdivided into wards, just
as in a real hospital. There are
Towering plants in the windows,
snowy white draperies and hangings
and tiny little white enameled 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 coachman
to bring the sick dog to the hospital,
but it often happens, especially If
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 suf-
fering of 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 i'll 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 suf-
fer from pneumonia, and sometimes
die of consumption. Coming from o
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-
riors little nests, but the superin-
tendent is firm, and doggie is re-
lieved Of all superfous wraps and
trimmings and given good warm
bath as soon as he is entered on the
books as fullfledged patient.
The doctor makes q thorough ex-
animation and then the men who
serve us 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 and dag
nosis, so that never by any possibility
could there be mixture of pets,
ms IF w, oh, al
that the precaution of labelling them
is very wise one.
At regular intervals the dogs are
carefully fed with milk and cruel,
and their medicine is administered
from a slender china feeding tube or
from a spoon, whichever is most
agreeable to the cranky patients. for
the dogs resent having strange
hands laid upon them, for the ma
jority are badly spoiled by their in
dulgent mistresses. From 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 at
home.
There is great rejoicing when the
patient is pronounced cured and is
put back into the little basket and
borne home in triumph; but, on the
other hand, when one has to go to
the land where all good dogs go there
is lamentation and weeping and
mourning.
Two dollars is the fee for prescrib-
ing for dog which is brought as an
out of door patient to the hospital;
the medicines, Of course, are extra;
$40 will pay for q week at the hos
pital with the very best care and at
tention which it would be possible
even for baby to have. Some
cases, where the trouble is broken
foot or dislocated limb, are taken
at SO or rs, varying as to the amount
of care which must be given them.
How TO Treat q Cold.