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The above description of BLAIN (malignant sore mouth) I quote from Dalziel. 



I have never bad a case of this trouble, which is not often found in dogs. The 

 following was written on this trouble by Dr. C. L. Thudichum for Forest and 

 Stream, and it is through their courtesy that I publish it: 



"Causes of this trouble are conjectural, the disease is most prevalent in the 

 spring and summer, and more frequently found in the southern than in the north- 

 ern latitudes. I do not know of any authority who assigns any particular cause 

 for this trouble, and although I can not say with any certainty myself. I have, 

 however, noted the following conditions, and they may be supposable causes, but 

 I do not wish to go on record as asserting that they are the actual causes, as they 

 are simply deductions of my own. 



"I was located in the South in practice some years ago, when I first saw a 

 case of this trouble in the dog. At that time I had on my hands several cases of 

 anthrax or Texas fever in cattle. I noted that whenever I found a ease of this 

 trouble in the dog I could also by inquiry find that in the neighborhood some one 

 had not long before lost a cow from the cow disease, as they called it. As the dogs 

 were allowed, in that section, to run at large, and as a dog is, when at large, more 

 or less of a scavenger, I concluded that either the dog affected had found the 

 carcass of the cow that had died and been buried and dug himself up a meal from 

 her, or that following that very desirable habit that most dogs are possessed of, 

 rolling in carrion, he had taken a roll in this filth, and then in licking himself 

 afterward, had thus infected his mouth with the disease. This assumption may 

 be entirely wrong, but I give it for what it is worth and it is the most common- 

 sense cause that 1 can give for the disease in the section in which I met it. The 

 English authorities do not assign any cause, simply saying that the attack often 

 begins without any apparent or previous illness, which is so; the attack is ap- 

 parently sudden; your dog seems well to-day and to-morrow has a very sore mouth. 



"SYMPTOMS. Dog may be a little listless lor a day or two, which may not be 

 noticed. Next and noticeable symptom is that he wants to drink a great daal of 

 water and drools saliva from the corners of the mouth; tongue is enlarged and 

 thickened. You look into the mouth and find it covered on its sides and under 

 surface with large vesicles of a red or livid color, which may end in irregular and 

 even gangrenous ulcers; the breath is extremely offensive and discharge of saliva 

 very great; dog will not eat and apparently can not swallow, but this is a mistake 

 he can, but won't, owing to the great soreness of the mouth. If the disease is not 

 checked now it passes on to the bowels and the dog dies with severe bloody 

 discharges. 



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TREATMENT. There is only one t^at I have ever found necessary, and if you 

 get at the dog promptly before the bowel trouble commences I believe you will 

 affect a cure in every case; at least I have. 



"Get an ounce of the tincture of sanquinaria canadensis at your druggist's 

 and a camel's hair throat pencil or swab on wire. Paint the inside of the mouth 

 and tongue where affected with this, morning and night, and give a tablet of 

 bichloride of mercury, one-hundredth of a grain, three times a day internally. 

 Feed nothing but milk for several days after cure is effected. Buttermilk is one 

 of the finest adjuncts to a cure. You wateh the dog closely and don't give him too 

 nmch water, not until he suffers from the lack of it, but so that he will be thirsty 

 enough to drink the buttermilk when you hand it to him. Have it as cold as 

 possible and give him a soup plate full three times a day; one day mlik, thte next 



