The times., 1897-08-15

in comfortable circumstances win PERMIT
finer animal 10 attend the "Iound''
PARTY because he is unwilling to pay the
| 81 tax. st. Eernards, Great Danes, col
| lies, puga, terriers, mongrel cgTs and bull
dogs all meet Oh terms OF equality at the
| hospital, and each is given the san,e amount
of attention The last named are perhaps
| most difficult to manage but the tamest
| breeds sometimes get exceedingly cross
when disease fastens its clutches on them.
| / saw in one stall st. Renard, whose
face is usually as mild and benevolent as a
philanthropist's snap his white teeth and
assume an expression Of intense hostility
toward everyone who approached him.
/ Next door to him was an erstwhi!e gentle
poodle, now re esembling an anarchist with
bomb throwing propensities. His shaggy
hair hung over his angry face, and In defy
ing order and medicine he truly resenlied
one of the great irreconcilable unwashed-
But the dogs are not long in that defiant
attitude. When they become accustomed
10 the strange faces around them they are
easier 10 manage and take their medicine
braYely. The fiercest ones have an ap
paratus consisting OF leather straps placed
over and ia their mouths to hold the latter
! open. They are then held and the medicine
put down their Ihroats. This apparatus
/ would be quite an Improvement on the old
1 nose holding ssyetIn adopted by parents TO
/ bring refractory sick children to terms
Nearly all the medicine is given in pills
! or capsssles. The large dogs have wards
/ like those Of the horses, in W hieh they can
| take exercise when they recover suffi-
| GENTLY House dogs furnish the largest
/ contingent OF patients, and sometimes an
! avalanche OF sick pugs descends on the
hospital. Most people prefer 10 feed their
| dogs toa often; they imagine that the ami
| mails should have the same number OF meals
per dav as human being. This is a great
mistake One good meal daily and a few
homes for luncheon. are sufficient in the
summer time and two meals per day in
winter. A majority of the dogs in the
hospital suffer from dyspepsia. Our in
creaEng love of luxury and artificial way
of living has its influence on the dog and
makes him feel the pressure of advancing
civilization. He no lorger cares for the
plain food ana simple pleasures OF former
days lie becomes Il blase dog about town,
and when his constitution is nearly wrecked
he goes TO the hospital 10 be treated fo-
! nervous dyspepsia and perhaps to have
gold Plugs put in his front tuSks-for the
institution has even a dental department
attached 10 il Catarrh is a disease
prevalent among CANNES of this city and n
number die from pneumonia During the
heated term mad dogs are sent TO the
hospital, but merely 10 breathe their last
, They all die. which is fortunate as wehave
not yet advanced far enough to establish
an Insane asylum for CANNES
Kennels for small dogs are airy and COM
Portable. They are situated near he oper-
aiing room, which is a large open apart
ment furnished with an operating table
The physician called In Il dog from the
street 20 demonstrate TO me low tne ami
mails are made ready for an operation
The table is covered with holes shaped
lkethe figure eight. The dog was stretched
out his fun length on his back near the
center OF the table. Cords we're ;ied TO
his feet and attached u thongs which
were fitted into the eights Thus pinioned
his body was kept stiI. 10 Is necessary TO
submit the poor things to this treatment
because they cannot he etherized .lr put
under the influence of anestleiics Ano-
dynes and local anesthetics are used to
assuage the pain as much as possible AS
rule people who bring their pets To the
hospital are content TO trnst entirely to
the physician and never interfere with
has methods OF treatment but q few make
the hospital attendants lives a burden by
running back and forth with suggestions
The man who knows it an and wants to
improve on the prescribed course has ac-
casionaIly to be told that he must submit
to the judgment of those In charge or take
his dog away. Then there is the loting
owner OF the pampered pug, an animal
which is sometimes sent to the hospital
Clad in bells, ribbons and Iaces-of which
he is speedily divested. The owner brings
various dainties to be fed TO her darling,
and begs that they viii not let him get
lonesome, and How long viii you give
him those hornd medicines ''Do you
think he viii die?' ''WilI you feed him
from this saucer? he is not accustomed to Il
common plate and so on, until we are
forcibly reminded of that trite statement,
The fools are not all dead yet These
poor little dogs, which have been treated
as tenderly as porcelain china, are, like the
Lady OF Burleigh, dying of an honor unto
which they We're not born They delight In
their fan from downy beds TO straw ken
nels- They turn joyfully from knick-knacks
to plain food, and when convalescent find
have been buried for weeks or chewing
stray bits of leather than in cream puffs
OF chocolate bonbons- Dogs viii be dogs
and sigh for the fleshpots OF Egypt.
There is a veterinary college con-
nection with the hospital and the next
place which / visited was the dissectine
room, where the students spend much
time learning the anatomy OF animals.
There were skeletons galore and bones
by the dozens of dogs, cats, and horses,
some OF them old and dry. others reeking
with odors Of the charnel house. From here
many specimens are sent to the a rmy and
Navy Medical Museum. Thestndentsund
go rigorous course OF study and prac-
tice in the hospital when they graduate
they ought 10 be good practitioners OF
human beings, for was told that animals
have all the diseases to which man is
subject 4 with persons, no two arfrnals
can be treated alike 1t is necessary To
study the general constitution and ternrera-
ment of each. The physician must de-
pend entirely upon his own observation
for the animal cannot, like man, aid in
the diagnosis by describing how he feels;
yet, it is almost as easy to determine
whatisthe matter with him. For example.
a horse suffering from Influenza does not
tell you that his head feels as if the top
Were coming off. yet his dulIness, Ii bored
breathing and other less pronounced symp-
toms, imperceptibe TO the uniniuated,
give the skilled physician r rapid insight
into the nature OF his ailment.
The laboratory of the hospital is like the