326 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



hands are sufficiently nice to employ them. The stones 

 I have met with were of a size I would not have liked 

 to have drawn through the urethra ; and therefore, 

 though I will not assert lithotomy cannot be performed 

 upon the dog, I must confess I have not performed it, 

 and must say I should require strong inducements to 

 attempt it upon the animal. 



All I aim at is to limit the increase of the deposit, and 

 to alleviate the painful symptoms it gives rise to. A 

 strictly vegetable diet best accomplishes the first object, 

 and doses of ether and laudanum, repeatedly administered 

 by mouth and injection, most speedily secure the second. 

 Pills of henbane are likewise of service; and with them 

 small quantities of the balsams may be combined, though 

 the last should not be continued if they have any marked 

 diuretic action. The peppers, especially cubebs, I have 

 thought serviceable, and very minute doses of cantharides 

 have seemed to be attended with benefit. Here, how- 

 ever, I speak with doubt; for the agents have by me 

 been employed only in homoeopathic quantities, and I 

 have not the means of saying they had very decided 

 action. They appeared to do good, since under their 

 use the animals improved ; and that is all I can state in 

 their behalf. Proprietors, however, when the pressing 

 annoyance is allayed, being told there is no prospect of a 

 radical cure, do not generally afford us much opportunity 

 to watch the action of medicines. 



Haematuria or bloody urine is met with in the dog ; and 

 I (having been unfortunate in those cases where I 



