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The discharge from the ear will cause sores on the inside of flap, so when in- 

 jecting the medicine wash these sores with the same. My iodine prescription is 

 especially good for these sore spots. Injecting with rubber syringe is always best, 

 if your dog will hold quiet and not resist treatment, and in his struggling injure 

 the ear from the syringe. If you can't control and keep him quiet, then pouring it 

 in will do, the main objection being medicine wasted. I find very little trouble in 

 giving any dog medicine for I go at him easy and gently, talking to him and thus 

 giving him to understand that his doctor is his friend. There are few dogs that 

 you cannot talk to ancf reason with, kind treatment very soon winning their con- 

 fidence. You can, of course, tell when ear is cured as the discharge and offensive 

 smell ceases, ear looks healthy and dog has stopped scratching and shaking his 

 head. , 



It cannot be too firmly insisted upon that, whenever a dog is suffering from 

 ear canker or from any eruption or skin disease, it is quite necessary to give a good 

 internal medicine as it is to apply a suitable external lotion. The only blood medi- 

 cine known to many dog fanciers is sulphur. A new prescription, therefore, may 

 not be out of place here. The following may be made up into pills, and will prove 

 an excellent all-round tonic and blood purifier. Take of: 



Sulphate of iron (dried) 12 grains 



Sulphate of quinine 6 grains 



Bicarbonate of soda (dried) 24 grains 



Liquorice Root Powder and Extract of Gentian Sufficient of each to form a suit- 

 able mass. 



Divide the above into twelve pills, one of which morning and night will do for 

 a dog of 20 Ibs. More or less in proportion for other dogs. Or Dent's, or Clayton's 

 Blood Purifying Pills are also both good to use in old or very bad cases. This can- 

 not be done with one box perhaps, any more than you could cure yourself with a 

 single bottle oi wpring medicine if your blood was out of order, so keep up treat- 

 ment until desired result has been accomplished. 



EAR CANKER, EXTERNAL. This generally follows or appears in connection 

 with internal canker, due to the poisonous discharge from ear, causing sores on the 

 flap or edges of ear. The tares and scratches from briars and thorns in working 

 hunting dogs in close coverts, if not given attention, may also set up external 

 canker. External canker is a sore or sores much of the nature of a cancer, a sore 

 appearing on the outside or inside of the ear which eats a hole through to the other 

 side if not arrested. It is much harder to cure than internal canker. It often 

 exists as a sequence of inflammation, ulceration, or suppuration of the internal 

 passage. External canker often starts, especially in hounds and pointers, or any 

 long-eared dogs, with a small sore that gradually eats into' the flap until it makes a 

 slit in the ear that continues to grow deeper, and will be perhaps a quarter inch 

 wide. This will be scabbed over on edges of the slit with a thin scab, bleeding a 

 good deal, due to dog continually shaking his head. Make a hood or cap of a piece 

 of canvas of sufficient length to reach around the dog's head, having two pieces 

 of tape running through a hem at each side lengthwise, by which you can draw the 

 cap tight enough around the dogs' neck behind the ears, and again, just above the 

 eyes, tying them underneath. This hood or cap prevents dog from irritating the 

 rs by flapping them. 



TREATMENT. First wash and dry the sores nicely, then touch the sore edges 

 ice a day with the following solution: Sulphate of copper one dram to an ounce 



