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if coupled with a corresponding improvement in the general treat- 

 ment of the animal. 



ANCHYLOSIS AND EXOSTOSIS. 



Stiff joints, splints, and spavins, occasionally enter the kennel 

 as well as the stable ; and when not too far advanced in the ossi- 

 fying process, may sometimes be checked by a blister repeatedly 

 applied ; at each application covering the part well up, and carefully 

 muzzling the dog. — See blistering, Class XII. 



CLASS VII. 



CALCULAR CONCRETIONS. 



There is hardly any cavity of the body of the dog in which 

 calcareous matter has not been found ; as in the brain, in most of 

 the glands, and in the intestines, where, occasionally, considerable 

 masses have been detected, some of which had formed themselves 

 a sac by distention of the intestinal coats. A case of this kind ap- 

 pears in The Veterinarian, vol. iii, where a calculus was found 

 encysted within the parietes of the ileum. 



URINARY CALCULI. 



These are not very common in dogs, but, however, they do 

 exist ; and nearly the whole pelvis of the kidney in one case was 

 found to be occupied by a calculus : much pain had been suffered, 

 much emaciation was present, and whenever the poor beast urined, 

 blood and mucus were passed with the fluid. We hardly need add 

 that death closed the scene. 



VESICAL CALCULI, OR STONE IN THE BLADDER. 



This is a more common complaint than the last : I have myself 

 met with several instances ; and I have not less than forty or fifty 

 small calculi by me, which I took from a Newfoundland dog, after 



