424 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



positively involved, however much authors may write 

 about such a texture having suffered. I direct my chief 

 attention to the healing of the internal ear, from which 

 I trace all the evil to have sprung. For this purpose I 

 give a bottle of the canker-wash, described a little further 

 on, ordering it to be applied thrice daily, and rest con- 

 tented as to the result. 



With regard to internal canker, how virulent was the 

 disorder, and to what lengths it used to progress, may be 

 imagined from reading Elaine and Youatt ; both of whom 

 speak with terror of its effects, advising the use of agents 

 for the recommendation of which I cannot account, 

 excepting by the supposition that they were selected 

 under the influence of fear. Most of the solutions advised 

 are painful ; but how far they were effective we may 

 conjecture from the descriptions they have left us of the 

 disease. They tell us that, as the disorder proceeds, it 

 eats into the brain ; either causing the dog to . be 

 destroyed, or driving it phrenetic. The poor animal, we 

 are informed, leans the head upon the fore-feet, the dis- 

 eased ear being pressed downwards, and continually 

 utters a low moan, which at length rises into one pro- 

 longed howl. Of all this I know nothing; but I re- 

 member at college, when going the rounds with the 

 Professor Simonds, on a Sunday morning, hearing one of 

 those huge howls which are uttered by large dogs when 

 enduring excessive torture. On my asking whence the 

 sound proceeded, I was coolly informed by my teacher 

 that he supposed Sam (the head groom) had been pouring 



