ALTERATIVES. LTERATTVES are intended to produce a fresh and healthy action, instead of the previous disordered function. The precise mode of action is not well understood, and it is only by the results that the utility of these medicines is recognised.

1. AEthiops mineral, 2 to 5 grains ; powdered ginger, 1/2 to 1 grain; powdered rhubarb, 1 to 3 grains. Mix, and form into a pill with syrup, to be given every evening.

2. Plummer's pill, 2 to 5 grains; extract of hemlock, 2 to 3 grains. Mix, and give every night.

3. Stinking hellebore, 5 to 8 grains; powdered rhubarb, 2 to 4 grains. Mix, and form into a pill, to be given every night.

4. Liquor Arsenicalis - of which the dose is 7 drops to an average sized dog - this is specially serviceable to dogs rendered gross by over feeding and no work.

5. Podophyllin, 1/3 grain; compound rhubarb pill, 3 grains. Mix, and give once or twice a week until the liver acts freely.

6. Cod liver oil, from a teaspoonful to a table spoonful, with one or two drops of wine of iron twice a day.