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and cover swelling over with a piece of spongio- 

 pyline, or a pad of cotton-wool covered over 

 with oil-silk, and apply a bandage or put on a 

 cap. Later, when the swelling has commenced 

 to go down, give the following tonic pills : — 



Recipe : 



Reduced Iron, - - - 6 to 30 grains. 1 

 Sulphate of Quinine, - - 4 to 12 „ 

 Common Mass. sufficient. 

 Mix. 



Divide into 12 pills. One to be given twice a 

 day one hour after food. 

 Muscles (Wasting) : 



Symptoms : There may be general wasting of 

 all the muscles of the body, the result of some 

 long illness, as distemper ; or there may be wasting 

 of the muscles of one or more limbs, the result of 

 want of use, as in cases of injury ; or some disease 

 of the spinal cord, causing paralysis, and occa- 

 sionally wasting of the muscles of one or both 

 sides of the head and face, the result of some 

 injury to the head. 



Treatment : When the result of illness, no 

 special treatment is required beyond giving 

 tonics, as cod -liver oil, for when the patient 

 gets about again the muscles will fill up as 

 before. When one or more limbs are affected 

 as the result of disuse from lameness or paralysis, 

 the limbs should be massaged and galvanised. 

 When the head is affected, the case is often 

 very obstinate, and sometimes the muscles never 

 1 According to the size of the dog. See p. S6. 



