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arsenic, also cod liver oil, should be given at the same time. Frequently 

 loss of appetite is a prominent symptom which demands especial treat- 

 ment first, and before other internal remedies can be employed. 

 „ In such cases quinine in two grain doses four times a day should be 

 given, and the animal urged to eat raw beef, milk, beef teas, etc., and if 

 partaken of sparingly he should be tempted with food every few hours. 



When gastric derangements exist, they should be treated as advised in 

 indigestion. 



One cause of eczema which the writer does not recall having seen men- 

 tioned, and which he desires to dwell upon, is to be found in torpor of the 

 liver and other hepatic derangements. Cases have been observed by him 

 which have proved obstinate, and remedy after remedy has been used 

 without success until treatment was especially directed to the liver, and 

 then improvement immediately followed. When a sluggish action of this 

 organ is suspected, it would be well to discontinue other internal remedies 

 and give the following — 



R Mass. Hydrarg. gr.iv 

 Pulv. Ipecac. gr.i 



Ext. Taraxaci 3ss 



Ft. Pil. No. xij. Sig. Dose one three times daily. 



After these pills are taken, the treatment previously employed can again 

 be instituted. The importance of regularly enforced and sufficient exer- 

 cise in plethoric, overfed animals, cannot be too strongly insisted upon. 



In fact every abuse must be corrected, and every influence tending to 

 improve the general health of the animal should be encouraged. 



While the internal treatment is important, the local is no less so, and in 

 very many cases of even greater importance. In no known disease which 

 the canine race is heir to, has a larger number of remedies and methods 

 been advised than for the treatment of eczema, and much harm has been 

 done by the injudicious and indiscriminate use of irritating applications 

 in the acute form, while much time has been lost by using the wrong appli- 

 cation, and neglecting to employ a proper and valuable remedy. 



To carefully study each case is imperative ; not alone to know its causes 

 and complications, but the stage of the eruption is of great importance, 

 for be it remembered, remedies which are valuable in the chronic stage 

 are not only pernicious in the acute form but do much to intensify the dis- 

 ease, and invite its extension over the entire body, when had judicious 

 treatment been instituted at first, and far simpler remedies and methods 

 been properly applied, the eruption would have remained a mere localized 

 patch, have been of but little consequence, and immediately recovered 

 from. 



