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poultices, dusted over freely with charcoal, applied 

 every four hours, and then the parts should be 

 freely washed with a warm saturated solution of 

 boracic acid ; carefully dried and wrapped 

 in carbolic gauze, and a bandage lightly applied. 

 As a rule, there is a good deal of constitutional 

 disturbance in these cases, and it is advisable to 

 give some medicine such as salicine, say from 

 three l to fifteen grains every six hours, either in 

 tabloid or cachet, also stimulants as brandy. 



Gastric Ulcer: 



Symptoms : Dogs suffering from this disease 

 are occasionally seen bringing up their food, 

 sometimes tinged with blood, which is generally 

 of a bright red colour. The quantity of blood 

 varies. Sometimes there are streaks mixed 

 with vomited matter, or there may be quite a 

 quantity, causing great exhaustion. They also 

 lose condition, become anaemic and languid. 



Treatment : The principal thing in these cases 

 is diet, which should be light and of an easily 

 digested nature, as milk with the white of egg, 

 or milk thickened with Benger's food. When the 

 dog is very weak, a little Valentine's meat juice 

 should be added with each lot, but nothing solid. 

 When the bleeding is severe give ergotine, a half 1 

 to two grains every two or three hours, in a tea- 

 spoonful l to a tablespoonful of water ; but when it 

 is very slight the styptics are not necessary, but 

 give the dog each time a quarter of an hour before 

 food from two * to ten grains of carbonate of bis- 

 muth, and immediately after food from one 1 to five 

 1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



