Excerpt from Kennel Diseases: Their Symptoms, Nature, Causes, and TreatmentThere are no specifics in canine practice. That is, no medicines which are sure cures, always, for the same diseases. Indeed, in many instances, a medicine which has cured a large number of cases may prove valueless in the next case, although it might seem precisely like the others. Again, oftentimes cures can be effected only in stages, as it were. That is, one class of drugs will accomplish a cer tain amount of good, and no more, and another class must be employed to secure greater gain. And so on, it being necessary often to resort to quite a large number of medicinal agents of radically different action before cures can be reached. Manifestly, therefore, he who undertakes to treat obstinate diseases especially should be fortified with as large a number of remedies as possible, that he may promptly substitute for it if one proves disappointing. This accounts for the different measures of treatment that I have recommended in so many instances, and always where difficulty is likely to be encountered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.