The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-03-12
Hospital and Sanitarium Combined-A
Washington Doctor Who Gives the
Beasts Turkish Baths and Performs
Operations on Them.

A(A4 III. CeCll Elc1Cu, q
lIY d professor of canine
-, medicine in the
veterinary department of Columbia
university, says the Washington Post.
This institution is a novel one and is
an experiment in this section of the
country. 1t is a combined boarding
house and hospital for all dogs fortu-
nate enough to have friends who can
afford to indulge them in this luxury.
The building is one story high, forty
feet long and twenty feet wide.
Through the center of it is a corridor
extending the length Of the building
and opening on this corridor are
twelve coy rooms, five on each side
and two at the north end. Each Of
these small rooms is fitted up with
hardwood and is heated by hot-Water
pipes so adjusted that the heat may
be shut off from one and maintained
IN others as desired. The DON have a
large window and a door opening to
the run" or playground, and a venti-
lator over the door opening on the cor
ridor.
These room are divided into wards
for he occupancy of dogs having con-
taglous diseases, such as mango and
dlstemper; for invalid dogs having all
ments that are not contagious, includ-
ing accidents, and for boarders, which
are generally pets left there while the
owner is out of the city. Tho arrange
ment of the wards is such that the ami
mails suffering from contagious dis
eases are completely isolated from
their canine brethren.
At the south end of the corridor the
operating room is on one side and the
~dispensary on the other. This oper-
ating room is supplied with hot and
cold water, a uncovered operating
table so arranged that all blood and
water is conveyed from it to the sewer
by pipes. In this room DR.. French
performs all of his surgical treatment,
from the amputation of a leg to enter
otomy. He recently had a notable
case Of the latter class.
A pet dachshund owned by Miss
Dorothy Rockhill, daughter Of the as
sistant secretary of state, recently
while playing swallowed a peach stone
that he had picked up along the
street. His suffering became intense
and it was feared that the animal
would have to be shot. Miss Rockhill
was greatly attached to the little pet.
which, because of his mischievous ma
ture, was called "Sin," and before con-
co~+;or ~ biz 1o;,r 1i11oS che oop-
suited DR.. French. The animal was
taken to the infrmary and the difficult
operation of enterotomy was success
fully performed and now Sin" is as
lively in the house of the assistant
secretary of state as ever.
Pet dogs suffer much from toothache
and the extraction of the offending
teeth is a daily occurrence at the in
Urinary. A few days ago a well-known
society lady took her little pet King
Charles spaniel to the infirmary for
treatment. The dog was blanketed
and carried in her arms as she left
her carriage and walked to the build
ing. The owner appeared to be greatly
distressed over the suffering of the dog
and she begged DR.. French to cure it
An examination showed that the ami
NAL had toothache and when informed
that the offending tooth could easily
be extracted the society lady cried:
ooh, no, doctor, not for the world
He would be a sight with a front tooth
gone. Can't you fill it,"
DR.. French had never filled a toott