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soda-water and milk, boiled fish, custard, along with 

 the use of some stimulant, such as a teaspoonful of 

 whisky or brandy every other hour. Local applica- 

 tions are useful, so that the region of the Hver may 

 have a mustard plaster applied, the mustard paste 

 being washed off in about twenty minutes after 

 appHcation. If preferred, linseed meal and mustard 

 poultices may be applied, only these are of no 

 use unless they are kept tolerably hot and re- 

 applied several times during the first hour or 

 two. 



Chronic Enlargement of the Liver 



The liver may be permanently enlarged, such 

 change being brought about by an increase of the 

 delicate fibrous tissue intervening between the 

 lobules of the liver, such increase being spoken of 

 as cirrhosis, or induration of the liver, which, needless 

 to say, is incurable, and not as a rule recognizable 

 during life, unless the enlarged organ renders itself 

 manifest by external manipulation. In some in- 

 stances dropsy of the belly follows induration of 

 the Hver, due to obstruction of the circulation of 

 the blood in the liver. 



Diseases Affecting the Kidneys and Urinary 

 Apparatus 



Unfortunately for dogs these animals are not un- 



