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They also follow diseases like distemper and are not uncommonly induced 

 by worms. Boils are very painful and make the dog cross. They appear, 

 usually, where the skin is thinnest. Their first appearance is in the form 

 of small red swellings, which enlarge, become hot and painful and even- 

 tually break and discharge their contents. They usually appear on the 

 inside of the thighs and bellies of young puppies when suffering with dis- 

 temper or worms. If accompanying distemper they should not be treated, 

 but at other times the proper thing to do is to reform the diet, give more 

 green food, bathe oftener, exercise more and when the boils are soft and 

 ripe open them with a sharp knife and dress with an antiseptic solution. 



Blood, Poverty of the. — See Anaemia. 



Bites. — A great injustice is done to a great many dogs by the old say- 

 ing that "dogs delight to bark and bite," for there are very many that do 

 not delight in either, but are to the contrary, properly behaved dogs in this 

 respect. Some clogs do, however, but generally in self defense, or at sup- 

 posed call of duty. Should your dog get bitten, wash the wound with tepid 

 water, press out any blood, and pour a little of friar's balsam, or compound 

 tincture of myrh on it. 



Since the above was written, I was bitten on the left hand in fourteen 

 places, by a Bulldog I was showing in the ring, at the 1916 dog show at 

 Louisville, Ky., State Fair, really the worst chewing up I ever got. Was 

 taken to the hospital near the dog show. The doctor washed the hand, 

 then dressed it with tincture of Iodine, and then applied a healing salve 

 called "Unguentine," (to be had at any drug store), repeating this daily 

 while show lasted, and I done the same for a week after home. The hand 

 wrapped with cotton and bandage, and the result was my hand got entirely 

 well. I will just mention, however, that the poor dog, after home, as at 

 the show, where for some cause he suddenly went off his base, continued 

 here to be crazy, did not try again to bite me (we were friends), but 

 did bite every dog he got at here, and suddenly died three days later, 

 being buried by me in my back yard, under an apple tree — and I miss 

 poor "Wrinks." I find that many doctors now use tincture of Iodine, 

 the first thing, on a bite or wound, in place of cauterizing, and I strongly 

 advise doing so, and then the salve. The first thing to do if you are 

 bitten, is to suck the bite, if on any part of your body you can get at with 

 your mouth, and spit this out, which abstracts any poison — if any poison, 

 from the bite. Don't be afraid of a dog's bite, don't get scared, the only 

 danger is, a small percentage of blood poison setting in, but if your own 

 blood is in good condition there is no danger. "Wrinks" case, with almost 

 every veterinarian, would have been a sure case of rabies, but as I don't 

 believe in this, I am yet here writing this article. 



Instead of cauterizing a bite, which always makes a nasty looking 

 wound, I much prefer to use the tincture of Iodine (using a small brush), 

 or if this is not on hand, then apply Peroxyde of Hydrogen, which will 

 do all the cauterizing will do. 



Should your dog be bitten by a strange dog and any suspicion exists of 

 so-called rabies in the strange dog, immediately use the tincture of Iron, 



