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more than an effusion of blood. If it is suffered to 

 ^o unattended to, gradually matter forms, and then 

 the ear is seen moist within. The itching is intolera- 

 ble in the complaint, and in the advanced stages of it 

 the ear is very tender. When it has remained long, 

 the ear becomes closed, and the hearing lost : now 

 and then it penetrates inwards, and destroys the dog. 

 When it first appears, it may be easily removed by 

 any astringent wash, assisted by cooling physic. The 

 Canker Wash [page ^2] is the best application I 

 have discovered. When it has existed a considerable 

 length of time, great attention must be paid to the 

 constitution. The dog must have less food and more 

 exercise, and in addition to the Canker Wash 

 {page 2 2] he should have a continued course of the 

 Alterative Condition Powdeks [page 22] 

 with an occasional dose of piiysic. 



CANKER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE EAR. 

 This, though it bears the same name and arises from 

 the same cause, viz. a mangj- alfection, is in ap- 

 pearance a very different disease. It consists in an 

 ill disposed ulcer on some part af the flap of one or 

 both ears, most frequently on its edge, dividing it into 

 a sort of silt. It is not a little remarkable, that 

 whereas long hp^red dogs (as Newfoundland, setters, 

 and water spaniels) are more subject to internal can- 

 ker of the ear; so smooth coated dogs (as pointers 

 and hounds) are the only ones in general affected with 

 this outot canker. Pointers and hounds who have 

 l)een rounded, wh;:h is having the tiap shortened, are 

 less liable to it than those who have then: ears of the 

 ^atu^ral length, From this circumstance it is cojiiuioa 



