Tetanus] 3°4 [Tetanus 



cases is useless. If the gland is much enlarged 

 and continues to increase in size, it should be 

 removed by operation ; but very often after 

 getting to a certain size it ceases to increase, 

 and if it does not cause any discomfort by 

 hanging very low and interfering with the 

 dog's walking, or looks very unsightly, it may 

 be left alone, especially if the patient is an 

 aged one, and it is an old dog's complaint. 



Tetanus : 



Symptoms : A rare disease in dogs, but 

 does sometimes follow a bad wound, parti- 

 cularly to the eye. Often it is difficult to 

 account for the cause. The disease, when 

 it attacks dogs, generally only affects the 

 muscles of the jaw (see Lock-jaw), but when 

 the whole body is affected, it commences with 

 stiffness of the muscles of the limbs and neck, 

 followed shortly afterwards by violent spasms 

 of the whole body, including the muscles of 

 the jaw, which cannot be forced open, and the 

 throat is also affected, making it impossible to 

 swallow. The pain during the spasms is acute 

 and the temperature very high, often over 107. 

 The disease generally terminates fatally. 



Treatment: Keep patient quiet in a dark 

 place, and relieve spasms by giving from 

 one-twelfth 1 to one-fourth of a grain of acetate 

 of morphia, with from ^ioth 1 to iiroth of a grain 

 of sulphate of atropine in a few minims of 

 water, injected under the skin. The dose may 

 be repeated every six or eight hours. 



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



