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Date: Jan 1870
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Date: 1939
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SentF. Hobday to E. Nettleship, 12th Feb. 1910.
12 Feb 1910
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‘Dear Nettleship,
Pray accept my apologies for not having answered your last letter ere this. I am sorry to read that you have got the Pekingese affected with those wretched lice as they are an awful nuisance to get rid of completely unless one clips the coat off – which is a pity in a Pekingese.
My advice is that you use the following lotion:
Re: Camphorae Pwdr.[?] 3 iii.
[illeg.] neat 3viii
for lotion.
[illeg.]: apply with the fingers, lightly but thoroughly, to about one third of the body each day for three consecutive days. Repeat this a week later again a week after this in order to catch the young lice as they hatch out. As a rule this cures them.
Don’t forget that the stuff is inflammable & must not be applied near a naked light - also that it is cold & therefore the little dogs should not be allowed to shiver in an outhouse or kennel or half an hour afterwards.
Now is the time to get rid of them as in the summer weather they multiply in myriads. The secret is to apply continuously over a period of at least three or four weeks to catch the young ones as they hatch our for the eggs on the hairs are most tenacious of life.
Basket & rugs &c. should be carefully washed in disinfectant solution – Jeys’ fluid being as good as any & all the dogs must be dome – no good to do some & have others to reinfect them afterwards.
Once you have got ahead of it the only thing necessary is to occasionally apply the stuff to (& around) any places where they scratch, when this is observed.
The account of your albino experiment is very interesting & I should like an account of them for the Veterinary Journal, of which I am Chief Editor.
Will you let me have this? Are you testing Mendel’s theory at all?
Kind regards,
Yrs sincerely,
F.[G?]. Hobday.’
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Quoted byMedicus, 'Notes for Novices: Rickety Puppies', Our Dogs 91 (23rd June 1933), p. 903.
Description:'Several cases of rickets have come under my notice recently, and there would still appear to be a need for warning and advice as to how any tendency to this condition should be dealt with. Some little time ago that eminent veterinarian, Sir Frederick Hobday, gave an address to the Kennel Association at Burton-on-Trent, which was reported verbatim at the time in Our Dogs. In the course of that address, Professor Hobday made special reference to “rickets”, and this is what he said:-
Good hygeine, plenty of light and fresh air, with a liberal meat, fish, and milk dietary, with a large bone to assist salivation and digestion, will do a great deal to clear away this trouble and will prevent its recurrence. If taken in time, before actual deformity has arisen, the puppy’s legs will grow strong and even straight, and although perhaps it may be stunted in growth, it will not necessarily be a deformits, and the dog will be able to act the part of the ‘pet of the household’ with perfect decorum. As in the case of hysteria, then, rickets is a vitamin-deficiency disease, and can be remedied by a liberal supply of food containing the natural vitamins, including meat, fish (I am very fond of suggesting teamed herrings), friut (especially orange juice), eggs, milk, and such like things. Cod-liver oil, mixed with malt or given alone, is one of the best and most effectual adjuncts; and if too much deformity has not already taken place, the pups will, as I have already said, soon be quite presentable again. Massage of the joints – and, in fact, the whole of the limbs – is an excellent adjunct, and moderate exercise (being careful not to go too far) is necessary; and every opportunity must be taken to ensure that the patient does not get over-tired.
Now, this advice is simple and easy to follow out, I commend it as being the best expert advice available on the subject.'
