450 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



LOTION TO BE USED WHEN SWELLING IS PRESENT. 



Tinct. aconit. Half-a-scruple. 



Aqua font. One ounce. 



Ess. anis A sufficiency. 



LOTION TO BE APPLIED AFTER THE SWELLING HAS SUBSIDED. 



Zinchi chlor. .... One grain. 



Aqua font One ounce. 



Ess. anis. A sufficiency. 



The other measures are dictated entirely by circum- 

 stances. 



OPERATIONS. 



THERE are very few of such offices to be performed on 

 the dog. Among those, however, which do occur, is the 

 removal of the toe. When a claw has grown completely 

 round, and by being pressed into the flesh appears, in the 

 judgment of the practitioner, to have provoked such 

 injury as decidedly and imperatively requires the remo- 

 val of the part affected, then the amputation of one toe 

 may be undertaken. When the dog, to allay the itching 

 of the extremities, gnaws or eats his own flesh from the 

 toes, leaving black and ragged bones protruding, ampu- 

 tation is necessary. The member must in each case be 

 amputated higher up than the injury. There is no abso- 

 lute necessity to muzzle the dog, provided the master is 

 present, and will undertake the charge of the head. 

 When such has been the case, and the master has 

 engaged to keep the attention of the dog fixed upon 

 himself, I have removed a joint or two from the leg with- 



