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giren. Two grains of James's Powder and five 

 grains of nitre, as a cooling powder, m^y also be given 

 every night when the purge is not operating. The 

 cytts should be frequently bathed with Goulard water : 

 in some cases a vitriolic wash succeeds better. Violent 

 exercise and exposure should be avoidcMJ, and the 

 diet should be ver\ spare. 



Cataract is another source of blindness in dogs : 

 it soraetiines comes on slowly, without any great ap- 

 parent external inflammation ; at others, though 

 more seldom, it follows ophthalmra. Cataract is very 

 common in old dogs. Distemper seldom leaves ca- 

 taract ; at least that perfect cataract in which the 

 erystaViine lens is alone afi^cted. This disease is in- 

 curable in dogs. 



Dropsy of tlie eye is another source of blindness in 

 dogs, though not a very common case. It sometimes 

 exists in one eye ; in others in both. It sv^ells the 

 eye prodigiously. It now and then accompanies dis- 

 temper ; but in this case it is not a pure increased 

 secretion of the humours of the eye, but a collection 

 of pus or matter. 



BREEDING. 



In a state of nature, bitches are subject to very little 

 difficulty or trouble in bringing forth ; but a life of 

 art, such as they experience from confinement and 

 luxurious living, wholly alters their nature, and sub- 

 jects them nearly to the same difficulties and dangers 

 in pupping as the human female experiences in bring- 



mg forth. 



Bitches be«ouie at heat at irregular periods. Tlie 

 average is about three times in two years; it is. 



