292 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



Sulphate of iron .... One t& four scruples. 

 Extract of gentian . . . Two drachms to one ounce. 

 Cinchona powder .... A sufficiency. 



Make into twenty pills, and give four in the course of the 

 day. The liver is too often at this time unhealthy, and 

 to correct it the subjoined may be "administered : 



Iodide of potassium . . . One drachm. 



Uquor potassae ..... Two ounces. 



Simple syrup Five ounces. 



Water A pint. 



Dose, from a tea-spoon to a table-spoonful three times a 

 day. The food should be chiefly vegetables, or at all 

 events only so much meat should be allowed as is required 

 to induce the dog to eat the mess of boiled rice. Exer- 

 cise is also essential, and a daily cold bath with a brisk 

 run afterwards, will be of service. The dog will likewise 

 be benefited if his skin be well brushed every morning ; 

 and perhaps it is hardly necessary to state that any 

 symptoms denoting mange or skin disease, canker, &c., 

 should be specially counteracted. 



Hitherto, however, nothing has been said about any 

 treatment of the part which is the immediate seat of the 

 disease. If the fluid poured into the perinseum be exces- 

 sive, the part must be laid freely open by two or three 

 incisions being made along the entire length of the 

 swelling. After this has been done, the liquid will not 

 escape as from an abscess ; for being held within the cells 

 of the membrane that lies immediately under the skin, 



