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block; calculate how long or short a tail you want (three inches is about right), 

 then let assistant hold puppy up to table with tail lying on it; have a sharp butcher 

 knife ready, and with one quick and rapid cut the tail is off. . Tip your bottle of 

 tincture of iron up to and against the end of tail and drop your pup down in the 

 yard. I have docked ths tails of a litter of poodle pups when not one of them gave 

 a cry or yelp from the operation, but did not seem to notice it at all and went on 

 playing as usual as if nothing had occurred. The mother will lick and take care of 

 the tails, and they will heal up in due time. 



ECZEMA. This is not contagious, and in this respect differs from mange, 

 which is. It is a constitutional trouble and no external application alone will ever 

 cure it, and you simply waste time and medicine giving external treatment alone, 

 for to insure a cure of this disease, internal and external treatment both are re 

 quired. Neither must you expect to cure it up in a short time, which you can do in 

 mange, for eczema requires time and patience on your part and the proper treat- 

 ment. The blood must be purified, and you know that if you yourself were taking 

 a spring medicine for a general cleaning out and getting your blood in the right 

 condition you would not expect to do it on one single bottle of Dr. Somebody's 

 Sarsaparilla. Eczema requires a proper course of medicine, but can be cured. In 

 this disease the hair sacks or follicles are the principal seat of the disease, 

 becoming inflamed., and if the animal is a white one the hair assumes a rusty or 

 reddish color at the roots. The inside of the thighs, back of the forelegs, the 

 elbows and belly are the parts first affected. Prompt means must be taken at this 

 time to check it up or inflammation increases rapidly, and the entire skin and 

 subcutaneous tissues will be involved, the hair drops out from the affected follicle, 

 purulent matter exudes and pustules form, which break open, the matter from them 

 running together and forming scabs, which crack open and bleed, and the animal 

 has become a pitiful and loathsome object, emitting a very disagreeable odor. 



In my thirty-five years' experience in handling dogs I have found at least fifty 

 cases of eczema to one of mange. Any skin trouble appearing ou a dog the first con- 

 clusion of so many is that it is mange, and here is where the mistake often comes 

 in. Eczema is curable in a dog the same as in a human, but patience and regular, 

 persistent treatment must be expected to be given the patient. 



In every article on eczema given herein EBEUHART'S SKIN CURE will do the 

 work, externally, and nothing more certain to use for the external part of tiia 

 treatment, in lieu of any others advised in either of the articles. It is also safe 

 and non-poisonous. 



It will require a month or even two or three months' treatment to effect a cure 

 in eczema, but if you follow treatment, aiid keep it up faithfully, you will surely 

 be rewarded for your trouble by again seeing your dog as he should be in his 

 usual good health and condition. 



The following article I copy from the American Stock-Keeper, written by 

 DR. F. HOLMES BROWN for that paper, the subject being well handled: 



"Eczema in the dog manifests many of the same signs and symptoms of the 

 same disease found in man. No disease in the whole range of skin disease* is so 

 difficult to treat properly. In eczema in the dog it is especially important tliat one 

 first of all find out what is causing the disease, then seek to remove it. In that 

 y only can we hope for success. 



Eczema is an acute or chronic catarrhal inflammatory disease of the skin, iu 

 the dog it manifests itself in two separate and distinct forms; first, the blotch or 

 nervous or neurotic form, and second, the red mange or irritative form. The 



