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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



clobC being- from two grains to ten in camiihor 

 water, or even plain water. 



Tire chronic form of bronchitis will always 

 yield, if the dog is young, to careful feeding, 

 moderate exercise, and the exhibition of cod-liver 

 oil with a mild iron tonic. The exercise, however, 

 must be moderate, and the dog kept from the 

 water. A few drops to a teaspoonful of paregoric, 

 given at night, will do good, and the bowels 

 should be kept regular, and a simple laxative pill 

 given now and then. 



Bruises. — Rest, hot fomentations, afterwards 

 lead lotion and cooling lotions generally. .Arnica 

 lotion if bruise be slight. 



Burns and Scalds. — If skin not broken, the ap- 

 plication of a little turpentine will take out the 

 heat, or carron oil, which is made of lime 

 water and oil equal parts. If charring or skin 

 broken, the air must be carefully excluded, by 

 application of carron oil on linen or rag. a cotton 

 wool pad or bandage. If very extusive, stimu- 

 lants and laudanum to guard ag-ainst shock. 

 Afterwards dress with boracic ointment. 



Calculus (or Stone in Bladder). — The symptoms 

 are frequent straining while making urine, pain- 

 ful urination, occasional bleeding, and general 

 irritation of the urinary organs and penis. 



Treatment must be palliative; sometimes an 

 operation is necessary, but unless the dog be very 

 valuable indeed it were less cruel to destroy him. 



The treatment likely to do most good is the 

 careful regulation of the bowels, not only by occa- 

 sional doses of the mildest aperients — Gregory's 

 powder in the morning, for instance — but by 

 moderate exercise arid the morning douche, and 

 occasional washing to keep the skin clean and 

 wholesome. The dog's kennel must be very clean 

 and warm, and ought to have all the fresh air 

 possible. 



The focd must be wholesome and nutritious, bu: 

 not stimulating. Avoid flesh, therefore, or give 

 it only in very small quantities. 



Small doses of hyoscyamus or opium ,gi\en as a 

 bolus, with extraetiuii taraxaci, will ease the pain, 

 or an opium and belladonna suppository will give 

 relief. 



Canker of Mouth. — ]'idc Mouth. 



Canker of the Ear. — This is a distressing 

 chronic inflammation of the ear to which many 

 dogs are liable. The inflammation is in the in- 

 side or lining membrane of the ear, and often 

 causes partial deafness. 



Symptoms and Diagnosis. — The first symptom, 

 or sign rather, we see, is the poor animal shaking 

 his head, generally to one side, for all the world 

 as a dog does who has a flea in his lug. If you 

 look into the ear now, you will — but not always, 

 as the inflammation may be deejj-seated — find 

 a little redness. There is also a bad odour. This 

 is diagnostic in itself. When the disease is a 

 little farther advanced, by gently working the ear 

 backwards and forwards, you will hear a crackling 

 sound, and the dog will evince some signs either 

 of pain or itchiness. 



When the disease has fairly set in, the symp- 

 toms are running of dark matter, mingled with 

 cerumen from the ear, frequent head-shakings, 

 dulness, capricious appetite, and very often a low- 

 state of the general health. 



Treatment. — Whenever you find a dog showing 

 the first signs of canker, take the case in hand at 

 once. Do not begin by pouring strong lotions 

 into his ear. The ear is such a very tender organ, 

 disease and inflammation are so easily induced 

 therein, that harsh interference is positively sinful. 



Begin by giving the dog a dose of some mild 

 aperient, either simple castor oil, or, better still, 

 from one to four drachms of Epsom salts, with 

 quinine in it. Let the dog have good nourishing 

 diet, but do not let him over-eat. Let him have 

 green, well-boiled vegetables in his food to cool 

 him, a nice warm bed, exercise, but not to heat 

 him, and try to make him in every w-ay com- 

 fortable. Then give him a tonic pill of sulphate 

 of quinine, sulphate of iron, and dandelion ex- 

 tract. 



Fomentation is all that is needed in the early 

 stages. Place cotton w-adding gently in each ear, 

 lest one drop gets in to increase the irritation; 

 then apply your fomentation to both sides of the 

 ear at once, using four flannels or four -(voollen 

 socks alternately. A quarter of an hour will be 

 long enough each time. But if the dog has been 

 neglected in the beginning, and the discharge 

 has been allowed to increase and probably be- 

 come purulent, then our ( hancc of resolving- the 

 inflammation has passed, and local applications 

 will be needed. 



Previously to pouring in the lotion, be careful 

 to wash out the matter from the dog's ears as 

 gently as possible. Purchase half an ounce of the 

 red salt called permanganate of potash, dissolve 

 this in tw-o pints of water, and pour as much of 

 the solution into the warm water you use as will 

 redden it. 



\\"e have several astringent lotions for canker. 

 The first we should try is the infusion of green 

 tea. It should be strong enough to resemble the 

 colour of pale brandy, and if it is used lukewarm 

 all the better. Then we have a lotion of dried 

 alum, from one grain to five, to an ounce of dis- 

 tilled -water; or nitrate of silver, sulphate of 

 copper, or sulphate of cadmium, which are used 

 in the same proportions. Lastly, but not least, 

 we have the liquor pliimbi siibacetatis, ten to 

 twenty drops to an ounce of water, to which a 

 little glycerine may be added, but greasy mix- 

 tures should. I think, be avoided. 



The canker cap may be used, but not con- 

 stantly, as it heats the head too much and adds 

 to the trouble. 



Cataract (an eye disease). — In one or both 

 eyes. .A speck on the pupil, or in young dogs 

 the whole pupil may be covered. The case may 

 be taken to a vet., but in old dogs it is usually 

 a hopeless case. Good feeding for old dogs, 

 but no pampering. Meat daily, and not too much 

 starchv food. 



