DISEASES 107 



i« insured, the patient must at the same time be kept warm by clothing: if 

 necessary; it is also needful that he should be as little distrubed as possible. 

 If the legs are cold, woollen bandages should be placed on all of them. The 

 diet should be rather low at first, but not too much so — broth, gruel, etc., 

 are suitable under the circumstances. 



In the way of medicines, it is necessary that the bowels should be kept 

 open by castor oil or the use of clysters. The Fever Mixture — which find 

 given under Catarrh, should be immediately and diligently administered. 



Blisters to the sides, as sometimes advised, are bad, as they cause 

 soreness and increase the pain in breathing. Hot -linseed poultices should 

 alone be employed throughout the day and night. If the fever is high, give 

 % to 1 drop of tincture of aconite every fifteen minutes for two hours, then 

 hourly for eight hours. 



Dogs recovering from this disease are always very weak, and require 

 very great care to prevent a relapse, even when all danger appears to be 

 gone. Only the most gentle exercise should be allowed at first, and fine 

 weather selected for it. The dog will require nourishing diet, which should 

 be plain, and consist for a time of broths, etc. a return to solid food 

 being gradual. The dog will at this stage be greatly benefited by tonics 

 and to build him up use either Eberhart's Tonic Pills, or Sergeant's Con- 

 dition Pills. 



Mange — A troublesome, and, in some forms, the most loathsome dis- 

 ease met with in the dog, occurring in so many forms as to be not always 

 easy of distinction. The trouble with too many dog owners is, that, when 

 any skin trouble appears they are most likely to call it Mange. Mange and 

 Eczema are too often confounded, and, as there is a decided difference, 

 mange being a skin trouble, due to a parasite, while eczema is a blood 

 trouble, the two diseases require different treatment. The term mange, as 

 applied to animals, is identical with itch in the human race, in both of 

 which exist parasite life in the skin, and is a cutaneous disease. The very 

 pronounced distinction between true mange and eczema, and other causes 

 of irritation of the skin, is that mange is caused by a parasite invisible to 

 the naked eye, and that it is transferable by contact, from one animal to 

 another, while eczema, blotch, surfiet or red mange, is not. And, while a 

 whole kennel may be suffering from the latter compalints, it must be be- 

 cause all have been subjected to conditions of life occasioning derange- 

 ment of the system, eczema remains an individual disease, and is never 

 transmitted. True mange resembles itch in man, as it is due to a small 

 parasite that burrows or tunnels through the skin in all directions, draw- 

 ing its nourishment therefrom. The female deposits her eggs In the canals 

 formed, which hatch out in about two weeks; the young continue bur- 

 rowing and occasion intense itching. True mange is entirely a local affec- 

 tion, and the uneasiness and loss of sleep causes the animal to continually 

 scratch and bite itself in Its vain efforts to allay the intolerable pain and 

 itching. This has a very debilitating effect upon the system, and will soon 

 transform a healthy and sleek coated pet into a loathsome object. 



The cause is invariably the result of having met some dog or other 

 animal that w*§ affected with mange. One dog meeting another or occu- 



