68 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



rupture of the wail at this spot, whereby the blood would gush suddenly out of the 

 heart into the bag containing it, ceasing to beat at once. 



"The animal must be prevented from any severe exertion. 



"It has been stated that this disease is common among pampered, asthmatical 

 pets, the truth of which is open to serious doubt." 



This is perhaps the most frequent form of heart disease found in the dog; 

 il is, however, seldom diagnosed during life. A post-mortem will show in such 

 cases that the fibres of the muscles are dotted with small dart spots (these are 

 globules of oil within the sheath of the fibre), the heart tissue is soft and breaks 

 down readily under the finger. Cause may arise from a general malnutrition 

 of the system, or from senile decay due to old age. The organ not always wholly 

 involved, and when only a part is affected it is due to some obstruction, causing 

 local malnutrition. 



WARTY GROWTHS ON THE VALVES or THE HEART. The valves of the heart are 

 sometimes the seat of small wart-like growths. When a dog has been a constant 

 sufferer from rheumatism, in such we occasionally meet with these growths. Their 

 presence may prevent the valves frajm working properly, or one may be whipped, 

 off, and thus block the circulation. Sudden death may occur. 



Exertion should be avoided as much as possible; but this state can only be 

 surmised during life, as in the case of the former disease. 



FOLLICULAR MANGE. See MANGE. 



FOUNDER OF THE CHEST. Sec KENNEL LAMENESS. 



FRACTURE. See BONES BROKEN. 



GASTRITIS. See STOMACH, INFLAMMATION OF 



GATHERINGS. See ABSCESS AND BOILS. 



GLASS EYE. See AMARTJOSIS. 



GLOSSITIS. See TONGUE, INFLAMMATION OF 



FRACTURES. While fractures are not of frequent occurrence in well-ordered 

 kennels, they belong to that category of accidents against which there is some- 

 times no safeguard. A sudden twist, stopping in some hidden cavity while gal- 

 loping over a field, jumping a fence, or from a carriage (one of the cleanest breaks 

 of a hind leg occurred to a foxterrier bitch of ours while jumping off the carriage 

 seat and catching her hind leg in the wire rail guard at the end of the seat), 

 so one never knows when such accidents will happen. Simple fractures are 

 so termed when a bone is broken into two pieces only; where a bone is broken 

 into several pieces it is termed comminuted, and when the ends of the broken 

 bone pierce the skin it is a compound fracture, which is the worst of all in the 

 piecing. To detect a simple fracture is not always easy, though of course the 

 other two conditions are more or less self-evident. In the case of a simple frac 

 ture, the limb should be taken hold of above the bruise or injury with one hand 

 arid with the other gently move the lower portion of the limb. If the bone or 

 bones are fractured a grating noise will be heard and the jar of the broken bone 

 can be felt. 



In treating this condition great car<? must be exercised in bringing the broken 

 ends together, and it is oest that the services of a surgeon be procured. In case 

 that is not available, or a home cure is decided upon, the ends of the fractured 

 bones should be brought opposite each other, and then splints, well secured by 



