70 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



TREATMENT. Give a brisk purgative two or three times a week and give two 

 to three grains of the iodide of potash in water twice a day aftes feeding. Grad- 

 ually decrease the allowance of food and feed only stale bread, dog biscuit or 

 crackers, dry if they will eat them, if not moisten with a very little milk or thin 

 soup; do not feed grease, fat, potatoes or sweets of any kind. As the food is 

 decreased slowly increase the amount of exercise, and as the animal gradually 

 comes into form omit the purgatives and feed raw lean beef, chopped fine grad- 

 ually increasing the amount. 



GOITRE, OR BRONCHOCELE. This term is applied to a swelling or lump 

 that appears on the front part of the neck, known as the thyroid gland. It is soft 

 and elastic to the touch, and appears to give no pain except when treatment is 

 neglected and it increases to such a size as to interfere with the breathing. It is 

 especially a disease of old dogs, although it often occurs in ill-fed and scrofulous 

 puppies. It will appear in a night, and is sometimes due to a cold caught, which 

 settles in the glands of the throat. The latest, and I have found by having to treat 

 many cases, is IODIN VASIGIN, full strength, which apply twice daily, rubbing well 

 in with the hands as you would apply a liniment. Another good remedy to apply 

 same as above, is, lodidode of Potassium, one dram to seven ounces of lard- (well 

 mixed). Aside from external treatment give cod liver oil from a teaspoonful 

 for a 20-lb dog, up to two tablespoonfuls for a dog like a pointer or St. Bernard, 

 three times a day; or Iodide of Potassium in doses of two grains in water, and in 

 addition a dose of Parishes Chemical Food three times a day. If abscesses form 

 they must be lanced. Dogs suffering from Goitre should be extra well fed. 



"DFNT" prescribed the following as here given: "I have two pointer puppies, 

 a dog and a bitch, whelped September 11, both strong, quick, full of play and ap- 

 parently perfectly healthy, excepting on the neck of each is growing under the 

 chin and on each side of the windpipe a bunch much like a tumor; these bunches 

 are now about the size of half a small egg, and seem loose from the skin; they 

 do not appear sore as the dogs pay no attention to them." Ans. "Goitre or an 

 enlargement of the thyroid glands. Paint with tincture of iodine once daily and 

 give twenty drops of the syrup of hypophosphites in the food twice daily." 



GATHERINGS. See ABSCESSES. 

 GASTRITIS. See STOMACH, INFLAMMATION OF. 



GLEET. Elaine, gives this name to a discharge from the prepuce, but it ap- 

 pears to me the name is misleading. For further information see PENIS, DIS- 

 CHARGE FROM, which, although not perhaps strictly correct, is adopted as being the 

 most generally useful and readily understood heading. Professor Law, however, 

 enumerates both Gleet and Gonorrhoea among the diseases of dogs. 



HEART, VALVULAR DISEASE OF. A very fatal form of heart disease. The 

 pulse is perceptibly irregular and feeble. A post-mortem will show the valves 

 thickened, and may present upon their surfaces granulations which feel under 

 the finger like minute particles of sand. Treatment is of no avail; but to prevent 

 sudden death all undue excitement should be avoided. 



HARVEST BUGS. These come in summer and are sometimes, but not often, 

 troublesome to dogs as well as man. They burrow in the skin, as does the para- 

 site in mange. Eberhart's Skin Cure applied twice a day, as in mange, will soon 

 destroy them. 



