286 ERYSIPELAS — WARTS IN DOGS. 



firmly and healthily. It is, however, a necessary caution to ob- 

 serve, that it is not prudent to open the tumour until it exhibits 

 its characteristic shining appearance, with evident fluctuation. 

 The future recurrence of the complaint must be prevented by at- 

 tending to the constitution as before directed. It is also proper to 

 remark, that all the affections of the flap of the ear are greatly ag- 

 gravated by the force with which they are rapped against the head 

 by shaking it ; the pendulous part should, therefore, always be se- 

 cured in a kind of cap during the medical treatment. 



ERYSIPELAS. 



Dogs are subject to two inflammatory afiections, not unlike to 

 human erysipelas. The one attacks the head, and is described 

 with Mange, and with Tumours also. The other affects the scro- 

 tum, and shews itself by a very red irritable state of the whole 

 bag, which becomes swollen and excessively sensitive ; some ex- 

 coriation is also present, and sometimes actual ulceration ; and the 

 poor dog finds it very painful and inconvenient to walk. In this 

 state it should be fomented with poppy head infusion ; but no ac- 

 tive mange application must yet be applied to it in this irritable 

 state, which would greatly aggravate it : the only ointment proper 

 would be one made with ten grains of acetate of lead and an ounce 

 of elder ointment. As soon as the irritation is abated, then proceed 

 with it as mange. Both of these affections, being the offspring 

 of plethora and too great fulness of habit, require depleting means 

 to assist the external applications. 



WARTS IN DOGS. 



It is not uncommon for dogs to be troubled with warts on some 

 parts of the body ; the most frequent instances of which are the 

 lips, the penis, and the prepuce. These excrescences may be 

 either cut off, or, when they exist in clusters, they may be sprinkled 

 with equal parts of crude sal ammoniac and powdered savine, which 

 commonly effects their removal. 



