ULCERATED TOES WARTS WORMING. 653 



wrap them in rags wetted with weak solution of carbolic acid or chloride of zinc, three grains to 

 an ounce of water. 



Ulcerations around the Toe-nails. This is a very painful and troublesome complaint to 

 which dogs are sometimes subject. In some cases the nails loosen and fall off, or have to be 

 removed. Great cleanliness is necessary to aid in healing it, and the use of astringent lotions ; 

 the sore places must occasionally be touched with strong solution of nitrate of silver. In chronic 

 cases blue ointment will assist Nature. In all cases socks or shoes must be worn. 



Warts are too well-known to need description. They occur on the lips and cheeks and on 

 the eyelids, causing the poor animal great discomfort ; they also occur on the prepuce or 

 vagina. 



Treatment. Excision is the best and most radical cure. They are easily snipped off with a 

 pair of surgical scissors, or dissected off with forceps and scalpel. If in broad patches, however, 

 on the inside of the cheek or lips, it is preferable to touch them with potassa fusa, or the 

 homoeopathic remedy, thuya, may be tried. 



Sometimes a dog has a tendency to the growth of warts ; in these cases I have known much 

 good done by a course of liquor arsenicalis. 



Worming the Tongite. We merely mention the operation in order to condemn it as a most 

 brutal and useless act. 



