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liquor plmnbi pure, with the best effect, in extreme 

 cases; though, in ordinary disease, the above is suffi- 

 ciently strong; and in medicine it is a maxim that a 

 sufficiency is enough. 



I give to the animal, as a general rule, no medicine to 

 take ; but invariably recommend the dog to be kept on 

 vegetable diet ; for, inasmuch as meat is the sole cause 

 of the disorder, however potent may be the drugs em- 

 ployed for the cure, it is imperative for its eradication 

 that the cause be removed. 



Sometimes, in consequence of the violent shaking of 

 the head, serous abscesses of considerable size form inside 

 the flaps of the ears. This mostly happens with large 

 dogs, and the abscesses are hot and soft, being excessively 

 tender. The animal does not like them to be touched, or 

 even looked at, but is frequently shaking the head, and 

 howling or whining afterwards. 



The remedy in these cases is equally simple and effi- 

 cient. The person who undertakes to remedy the evil, 

 first, by way of precaution, tapes the animal ; that is, he 

 forms a temporary muzzle, by binding a piece of tape 

 thrice firmly round the creature's mouth. He then places 

 the dog between his knees, and turning up the ear, with 

 a small lancet makes quickly an opening in what then is 

 the superior part of the sac in the inverted ear. This is 

 necessary, because, if the opening were made inferiorly. 

 all the fluid would escape, and the side of the emptied 

 sac would collapse. If the point of the knife even could 

 be introduced into an incision made upon the lower part 



