78 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



Mix; dose for a 20-lb. to 40-lb. dog, one tablespoonful every four hours in a 

 little gruel. Larger dogs like St. Bernards a tablespoonful and a half as 

 a dose. 



KEEPING FLIES OFF EAR AND NOSE. Flies often bother a dog's ear and 

 nose in summer, making sore places. Pine tar rubbed on the sore places will do 

 this nicely, also healing up the sores at same time. You can get a box of it at 

 any drug store for 10 cents, or Eberhart's Skin Cure applied twice daily will do the 

 work as well. 



LOCK-JAW (Tetanus). This is of very rare occurrence, a fact all the more 

 remarkable when we consider how liable the dog is to various spasmodic affections. 

 I have never seen a case of it myself, but Elaine describes it, and it is a recognized 

 canine disease. It is a form of tetanus, and under that head Professor J. Wood- 

 rofte Hill describes the symptoms: "When the jaws only are affected, the head 

 is poked out, the jaws are tightly closed, the angles of the mouth are drawn back, 

 the mouth is filled with frothy saliva, and the eyes are fixed in an unnatural and 

 often hideous position." 



If you are so unfortunate as to have a dog seized with lock-jaw, place him in 

 quiet place on a good bed where the light is subdued and he will not be liable to be 

 disturbed, and send at once for the best veterinary surgeon you can find. A cure 

 is very doubtfvil, even with the most skilled treatment; but, as a matter of duty and 

 humanity, try and help your dog through this most dangerous trouble if it is pos- 

 sible. All owners of dogs should keep informed as to the veterinarians in their 

 town or city, as to which one is experienced in canine practice, so that when a case 

 is urgent, you will know what one to call in and just where to find him. Officious 

 ignorance and rough handling would only cause pain without the remotest hope of 

 good results. 



LOOSENESS OF THE BOWELS. See DIARRHEA and DYSENTERY. 

 LUMBAGO. See RHEUMATISM. 



LEUCORRHOEA. Use as an injection peroagina sulphate of zinc, y a dram; 

 acetate of lead. i/ 2 dram, to a pint of water. One injection per day, except in 

 bad cases it can be used twice daily. 



LACTEAL TUMORS. No better treatise on this trouble can be given than 

 DALZIEL'S. 



"Every dog owner must know what a common thing it is to see a bitch with 

 an enlargement of one of her teats, or the structures adjoining them. Now, not 

 only is such very unsightly, but when grown to a considerable size, as it will do, 

 it is very liable to injury, 



"The immediate cause is the damming up of one of the milk-ducts; the teat is 

 "blind/' as it is called in dairy parlance that is, the flow of milk through it is 

 obstructed by some malformation. Far oftener, however, the milk itself is the 

 cause; that is to say, it is not drained off sufficiently, when it hardens, acts as a 

 foreign body, and still further as an irritant, because of its chemical decomposition. 

 The effect of this is that more or less inflammation of the milk-gland is produced, 

 a hard lump forms and increases gradually, and once begun, the evil develops more 

 and more at each returning period after oestrum, when pupping has or should have 

 taken place. 



"From the numerous question.? I have received on the subject it does not appear 

 to be generally known by those who keep dogs that some bitches, even if they have 

 been secluded from the dog during the period of "heat," will secrete a fluid much 



