DISEASES 25 



This is a good hair grower, but here is where Eberhart's Skin Remedy 

 will surely do the work; never failing as a hair grower. Clayton's will do 

 the same thing. 



"Blain — Is a name given to a vesicular swelling of the tongue along 

 the sides and underneath. It comes on suddenly, is most frequent in spring 

 and summer, and appears to be epidemic, many cases occurring in the 

 same neighborhood at the same time; it has not been shown to be contagious, 

 and, although it is not a fatal disease, it is a very troublesome one. 



"The symptoms appear without warning and apparently without cause. 

 The first thing generally observed is a considerable increase in the flow 

 of saliva, which dribbles from the mouth. The breath is foetid, and on 

 examination the tongue will be found considerably swollen, while if the 

 disease has lasted any time there will be observed large livid vesicles, which 

 rupture, leaving ulcers; these ultimately assume a gangrenous form and 

 discharge foetid matter tinged with blood." 



The above description of Blain (malignant sore mouth) I quote from 

 Dalziel. 



I have never had a case of this trouble, which is not often found in 

 dogs. The following was written on' this trouble by Dr. C. L. Thulichum 

 for Forest and Stream, and it is through their courtesy that I publish it: 



"Causes of this trouble are conjectural, the disease is most prevalent 

 in the spring and summer, and more frequently found in the southern than 

 in the northern latitudes. I do not -know of any authority who assigns any 

 particular cause for this trouble, and although I can not say with any 

 certainty myself, I have, however, noted the following conditions, 

 and they may be supposable causes, but I do not wish to go on record 

 as asserting that they are the actual causes, as they are simply deductions 

 of my own. 



"I was located in the South in practice some years ago, when I first 

 saw a case of this trouble in the dog. At that time I had on my hands 

 several cases of anthrax or Texas fever in cattle. I noted that whenever 

 I found a case of this trouble in the dog I could also by inquiry find that 

 in the neighborhood some one had not long before lost a cow from the cow 

 disease, as they called it. As the dogs were allowed, in that section, to 

 run at large, and as a dog is, when at large, more or less of a scavenger, I 

 concluded that either the dog affected had found the carcass of the cow 

 that had died and been buried and dug himself up a meal from her, or 

 that following that very desirable habit that most dogs are possessed of, 

 rolling in carrion, he had taken a roll in this filth, and then in licking him- 

 self afterward, had thus infected his mouth with the disease. This as- 

 sumption may be entirely wrong, but I give it for what it is worth and it 

 is the most common sense cause that I can give for the disease in the section 

 in which I met it. The English authorities do not assign any cause, simply 

 saying that the attack often begins without any apparent or previous illness, 

 which is so; the attack is apparently sudden, your dog seems well today 

 and ^ tomorrow has a very sore mouth. 



"Symptoms. — Dog may be a little listless for a day or two, which may 

 not be noticed. Next and noticeable symptom is that he wants to drink a 



