DISEASES 101 



ent In both sexes, the first article in the male being much thicker than 

 the other. The abdomen is broad and more rounded in the female than in 

 the male and has lateral but no median spots. 



Lice live in all parts of the body — the roots of the ears, around the eyes 

 and all about the head and face, as well as along the top of the back. They 

 spt up an irritation that causes the dog to scratch and worry continually, 

 and if the skin be closely examined streaks and dots of blood will indicate 

 the feeding places of these pests, which are easily discerned creeping about. 



The rapidity with which lice multiply is marvelous. Independent of 

 the destructive influences which restrain their multiplying, it is estimated 

 that the descendants in the third generation of one female louse will num- 

 ber 125,000. v 



The most effectual and the safest remedy for the destruction of lice 

 is a lime and sulphur lotion. The skin should be thoroughly saturated 

 with it for ten or fifteen minutes, and at the end of this time the dog 

 should be given a bath in lukewarm water, a standard dog soap being 

 used. He should then be brushed and combed until thoroughly dried. 

 Covering the dog with a mixture of cotton seed oil and crude coal oil in 

 equal parts and then washing the dog at the end of a half hour with warm 

 water and dog soap will kill eithpr fleas or lice. 



Eberhart's Skin Remedy will kill lice. It should be thoroughly rub- 

 bed in, not missing a spot on the dog. After it has been on half an hour, 

 then the dog can be washed and dried; this bath only given to remove the 

 grease, if it is a house pet. . If in warm weather, and dog can be kept out 

 in the yard, the bath is not necessary. The application must be repeated 

 at least once more, In twenty-four hours, to kill the nits or the young 

 ones that are born every twenty-four hours. My dog soap will kill lice, 

 if you apply it thoroughly, and allow it to remain on (and repeat once or 

 twice more. 



For pet or house dogs the insect powders generally made from the 

 powdered flowers of pyrethrum roseum will be found most convenient. 

 Unfortunately their expense precludes their general use in kennels. The 

 powder must be well rubbed into the roots of the hair or blown in with a 

 small bellows, made for that purpose, that is of assistance in spreading it 

 well around the roots of the hair. After allowing it to remain on some 

 time — fifteen minutes to one hour — it can be dusted out over a sheet of pa- 

 per, which can then be rolled up and burned. 



Lock-Jaw (Tetanus) — This is of very rare occurrence, a fact all the 

 more remarkable when we consider how liable the dog is to various spas- 

 modic affections. I have never seen a case of it myself, but Blaine describes 

 it, and it is a recognized canine disease. It is a form of tetanus, and under 

 that head Professor J. Woodroffe Hill describes the symptoms: "When the 

 jaws only are affected, the head is poked out, the jaws are tightly closed, 

 the angles of the mouth are drawn back, the mouth is filled with frothy 

 saliva, and the eyes are fixed in an unnatural and often hideous position." 



If you are so unfortunate as to have a dog seized with lock-jaw, place 

 him in quiet place on a good bed where the light is subdued and he will 

 not be liable to be disturbed, and send at once for the best veterinary 



