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slightest fetor, the mouth should be frequently washed with a diluted 

 solution of the chloride of lime ; one part of the saturated solution, and 

 eleven of water. This will act as a powerful and useful stimulus to the 

 foul and indolent ulcer. When all unpleasant smell is removed, the 

 mouth should be bathed with a lotion composed of equal parts of tincture 

 of myrrh and water, or half an ounce of alum dissolved in a quart of water 

 and two ounces of the tincture of catechu added to the solution. I do 

 not recollect a case in the horse or dog, in which these medicines were 

 not employed with advantage. In cattle, before there has been fetor at- 

 tending the discharge, or the constitution has been materially aifected, these 

 simple means will perfectly succeed. 



If the practitioner is consulted somewhat too late, when the constitution 

 has become affected, and typhoid fever has ensued, he should still lance 

 the tumours, and apply the chloride of lime and the tincture of myrrh, 

 and give q, gentle aperient. He should endeavour to rouse and support 

 the system by tonic medicines, as gentian and calumba with ginger, adding 

 to two drachms of the first two, and one drachm of the last, half an ounce 

 of nitre ; but he should place most dependence on nourishing food. Until 

 the mouth is tolerably sound, it is probable that the animal will not be 

 induced to eat ; but it will occasionally sip a little fluid, and, therefore, 

 ^ruel should be always within its reach. More should occasionally be 

 ijiven, as thick as it will flow, with a spoon or small horn. 



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of the dog discharge, with somewhat less efficiency, the same office as in 

 t he horse, cattle, and sheep ; and are usefully employed in gathering to- 

 gether the food, and conveying it to the mouth. The lips also secrete the 

 saliva, a fluid that is indispensably necessary for the proper comminution 

 of the food. 



Swellings on the inside of the cheek or upper lip, and extending nearly 

 to the angle of the lip, are of frequent occurrence. A superficial sore 

 spreads over it, slightly covered by a yellowish, mattery pellicle ; and on 

 the teeth, and extending down the gums, there is a deposition of hardened 

 tartarous matter, which is scaled off with a greater or less degree of diffi- 

 culty. It must be removed, or the sore will rapidly spread over the cheek. 

 A lotion of equal parts of tincture of myrrh and water, with a few drops 

 of the tincture of cantharides, will be usually sufficient to cause the swel- 

 1 ng to subside, and the pellicle to be detached. The lip, however, will 

 g enerally remain slightly thickened. A little soreness will sometimes re- 

 t arn, but be easily reduced. 



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next claim attention. 



According to the dentition of the dog by M. Girard and Linnaeus, 

 t!ie following is the acknowledged formula : 



Incisors, ; Canines, ; Molars, , =42. 



The following cuts exhibit the front teeth of the dog in various stages 

 0; ? gTOwth and decay : 



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