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with scissars, v.liicli are apt to split them ; but they 

 should be sawed off with a very fine iind hard cocks- 

 ^pur saw, and then filed smooth. The toes of dogs 

 also are subject to a peculiar disease, in which one of 

 them appears very higldy inflamed, swollen, and 

 somewhat ulcerated, around the claw. The dog is 

 continually lickiiig it, and this, instead of doing good, 

 as is supposed, always makes it worse. This complaint 

 is commonly mistaken for an accident, and persons 

 are surprised that the common attempts at cure do 

 not succeed : the fact is, that this affection is nothing 

 more than mange, and it may be readily cured by 

 applyingthe Mange Ointment [page 21], sewing 

 it up in leather to prevent the dog's licking it. 



CLYSTERS, 



Clysters are of the utmost service in many cases 

 lo dogs : they are a most powerful stimulant to the 

 bowels in obstinate obstructions, and in many in- 

 stances they alone, can be depended upon ; for, in an 

 accumulation of hardened exrrement existing low 

 down in the bowels, purging ph^^ic by the mouth 

 loses all its efficacy, and oidy increitses the evii. In 

 inflamed bowels, bladder, kidneys, or womb, clys- 

 ters act as a fomentation : clysters aisu aiiord nourish- 

 ment in a ver'*' great deree when made of autritioas 

 liquids. Cases wherein they -viay be benelic; tlly used 

 as nutri nent occur very frexiuentiy : as when there is 

 so obstinate a sickness that nottiing \v!i> rem.uiM on 

 the stomach ; aini when, likewise, from disinclination a 

 dog refuses his food, and cannot be forced ; in wounds 

 of the mouth, face, or throat. In these and other 

 cases, clysters of broth, gravy, or gruel, will ailbrd 



