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 longer time than is necessary in tlie hinder ones, 

 otherwise the limb will gradually become crooked 



after the bandage is removed. 



GLANDULAR SWELLINGS. 



Dogs are very liable to swellings of the various 

 glands of the body. The parts most subject to be- 

 come swelled and enlarged are the glands of the neck. 

 This complaint is treated on under the head Bron- 

 CHOCELE. The glands of the belly are also very 

 frequently enlarged in bitches. See Cancer. Pup- 

 pies now and then have the mesenteric glands dis- 

 eased, in which case they pine and waste away, till 

 complete emaciation carries them off, and no remedy 

 seems to arrest the disease. The pancreas and spleen 

 also are liable now^ and then to become diseased. 



There is a swelling of the whole of the substance 

 of the neck that is sometimes confounded with gland- 

 ular swellings, but which it is wholly different from, 

 and depends entirely on spasm ; which see. 



GRAVEL. 

 Dogv<; have stone it is certain ; that they therefore 

 might have gravel also it is natural to suppose, though 

 it is not easy to detect it. i have, however, seen the 

 complaint well marked. From ten to twenty drops 

 of oil of turpentine, or twice the quantity of spirits 

 of nitre, twice a day, with a few drops of laudanum 

 in case of much pain, will form the best means of 

 treatment. See the article Stone. 



HUSK. 

 This is the popular term in some countries for dis- 



