58 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



of water. Here are several other remedies: Yellow oxide of mercury 15 grains 

 to one ounce of simple ointment. Mix, and use once a day to sores after having 

 first cleaned them. Another is, if any of the sores look "angry" scrape with a knife 

 a little blue stone into fine powder and dust the ear with it; or, after bathing and 

 drying nicely touch them with a point of lunar caustic. As soon as you have cau- 

 terized the sores apply a damp sponge or cloth. 



Quoting Hugh Dalziel: "There are other cases where the whole of the exter- 

 nal ear becomes swollen and 'tender, the flap thickened and tilled with fluid between 

 the skin and the cartilage or gristle; in such cases the best plan is, after bathing 

 the ears, well, to cut them with a lancet, press out the bloody matter, and, having 

 again well washed and softly dried the ears, let. them be touched with the following 



LEAD LINIMENT. 



Goulard's extract of lead 1 ounce 



Glycerine and carbolic acid Vi ounce 



Finest olive oil 4'/ 2 ounces 



"Mix the two first named, and add the oil gently, rubbing together in a 

 rnortar. Shake bottle well before using. In getting the glycerine and 

 carbolic acid from your druggist, I mean it to be one part pare carbolic 

 acid in five parts. 



"There is also a mangy affection of the ear which might be confounded with 

 external canker; in such cases the edges of the ear become dry, hot and scaly, anti 

 hair comes out, but this is not ear canker and should be treated as mange wit** 

 Eberhart's Skin Cure, applying it twice daily, rubbing it on until ear softens up 

 and gently scraping off the hair with the fingers. 



ENLARGED JOINTS. All large joints are not diseased. In selecting a pup 

 from a litter the big jointed ones are to be preferred. Enlarged joints, from the 

 want of the hard, earthy materials in the bone, which makes them yielding, so that 

 they cannot support the weight of the body, consequently giving away, producing 

 deformity, are, however, often met with, caused generally by bad food, lack of good 

 water, fresh air and sunshine. (See RICKETS.) 



EAR, POLYPUS IN THE. This will occur sometimes in the lining mem- 

 brane of the external meatus. Their removal should be left to the veterinary sur- 

 geon. 



EAR, WAX HARDENING IN THE. Warm water injections are useful and 

 afterward the ear should be carefully dried; or better yet, glycerine first put in hot 

 water and when cool enough to use, inject into dog's ear. His head laid flat on one 

 side. Or, a little oil of almonds poured into the cavity is good. Either should be 

 kept up daily until the wax is softened. Another good thing is one part spirits of 

 wine to twenty parts of lukewarm water. Dry afterward with cotton-wool rolled 

 around a probe or piece of pointed stick. 



ENTERITIS. (See BOWELS, INFLAMMATION OF') 



ERYTHEMA. A superficial inflammation of the skin. Dogs occasionally have 

 it; not often a serious matter, though at times quite obstinate. The skin peels, 

 leaving the part tender and sore. The mouth is often the seat of the disease, and 

 the skin finally becomes wrinkled. Administer a purgative and bathe the parts 

 with a saturated solution of boracic acid lotion (non-poisonous). 



