116 ' DISEASES 



Will it have any bad effect on the dog after being cured? Please prescribe. 

 Ans. — These navel ruptures frequently disappear with age and seldom 

 cause any inconvenience. If you want to operate on the rupture, lay the 

 dog on his back, pinch the skin up over the opening in the walls of the 

 abdomen and pass two pins through at right angles to each other, being 

 careful not to puncture the intestines; then tie a silk cord around the skin 

 between the body and the pins and allow it to stay there until it sloughs 

 off." 



Nephritis. — See Kidneys, Inflammation of. 



Obesity. — See Fatness, Excessive. 



Ostitis (Inflammation of the Bone) This is generally due to violence, 



blows, or to constitutional disturbance, like rheumatism or scrofula. Symp- 

 toms are pain, heat and swelling of the skin at the affected part, also lame- 

 ness. Very essential in such cases is rest, combined with hot fomenta- 

 tions to the part and a dose of aperient medicine; when due to rheumatism, 

 the systemic treatment recommended under Rheumatism, should. be adopt- 

 ed; and should there be an enlargement left after the acute inflammation 

 has subsided, the part should be painted daily with tincture of iodine, unless 

 soreness is produced, when this treatment should cease for a day or two. 



Ozoena. — This complaint shows itself by a discharge from both nos- 

 trils. The causes are diseased teeth, protracted catarrh, causing chronic 

 inflammation of the lining membrane of the nose, polypi, or inflammation 

 of the sinuses of the nose, due to the presence of foreign matter in that 

 organ. Where the disease is due to decayed teeth, the latter should be 

 extracted; or to polypi, these should be removed. The nostrils should be 

 syringed night and morning with a saturated solution of boracic acid; or 

 the tincture of hydrastis is often useful — 1 part of tincture to equal parts 

 of water. Exercise and fresh air are very necessary to recovery. 



Poisoning. — A dastardly act is to poison a dog, and no punishment is 

 too severe to inflict on the cowardly cur who does it. If I could have my 

 way about it, the cur that poisons a dog would hang by the neck till he 

 was dead, a proper punishment, properly fitting the crime. If you are so 

 unfortunate as to have your dog poisoned, keep your eye open on your 

 neighbors — who perhaps are unfortunately such degenerates that they 

 do not like dogs. Bide your time, but never give up trying to land the 

 cur who poisoned your dog, and then, if you can not have positive proof 

 enough to punish him or her legally, try some other plan quietly, and 

 never give up until you have in some way punished the one who killed 

 your dog. 



I am devoting considerable space to this subjett, as it is important, 

 and advise that you study this article well, so that if you are so unfortunate 

 as to ever have a dog poisoned, you may know what to do promptly, and 

 perhaps save your dog. 



It may be of service to some readers io briefly refer to a few of the 



