428 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



of the ear, it would not be so easy to cut speedily from 

 below upward, as to push the blade from above down- 

 wards. Well, the opening being made with the lancet, a 

 little fluid escapes ; but no pressure being put on the sac, 

 the major portion is retained. The operator then takes a 

 straight probe-pointed bistoury, and having introduced it 

 into the orifice, by making only pressure, instantly divides 

 the sac. Frequently considerable fluid escapes ; the 

 beast operated upon makes up its mind for a good howl ; 

 but, finding the affair over before its mouth was moulded 



A DOG TAPED OK MUZZLED FOR OPERATION. 



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to emit the sound, the cry is cut short, and the dog 

 returns to have the tape removed, that it may lick the 

 hand that pained it. 



After the enlargement is slit up, nothing more is 

 required than to fill the sac for a day or two with lint 

 soaked in the healing fluid ; and when suppuration is 

 established the lint may be withdrawn, and the wound, 

 if kept clean, left to nature. 



