3 1 4- ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 



cure to extract the claw, which a pair of strong forceps will 

 usually be sufficient to effect ; so diseased has the connecting 

 fibres become. 



Scaling of Tartared Teeth. — The difference between the sup- 

 ply of nutriment, and the exertions of lap dogs, and of those that 

 are much confined, is such as to derange the digestive functions in 

 many ways ; and in none does it appear more conspicuous than 

 in the accumulation of tartar around their teeth : See Diseases of 

 the Bones, p. 180. As this state invariably ends in the destruc- 

 tion of the gums, so the teeth ultimately fall out : the breath of 

 the dog is also rendered insufferably foetid by it. The tartar must, 

 therefore, be removed, which is not difficult, by means of a set of 

 human teeth-scaling instruments ; and as the tartar accumulates 

 again, the operation must be repeated. 



SineftJotis; illusltratibe of t^e dTtontiJiptecf. 



As this work commences with a frontispiece containing por- 

 traits of dogs whose virtues and sagacity deserve commemoration, 

 it shall close with the recital of the immediate facts there graphi- 

 cally alluded to. The upper portrait is that of a large one of 

 the water breed, whose owner (a German gentleman of fortune) 

 boarded and lodged in the house of a clergyman with whom I was 

 intimate. This gentleman^s attachment to his dog was such, that, 

 whatever sum he agreed to pay for his own board, he always 

 tendered half as much for that of his dog, that thereby he might 

 insure him the treatment his fidelity so well merited. Travelling 

 in Holland, the German one evening slipped from off the bank of 

 a large dike into the water below, which was both wide and deep : 

 being wholly unable to swim, he soon became senseless ; and when 

 restored to recollection, he found himself in a cottage on the op- 

 posite bank of the dike to that from which he fell, surrounded 

 by persons who had been using the Dutch means of resuscitation. 



