DISEASES. 89 



After a dose of this, then use the following: 



Extract Df gentian 1 dram 



Powdered rhubarb 36 grains 



Carbonate of soda 12 grains 



Gum acacia sufficient to make into twelve 10-grain pills. 



Very small toy dogs should have half a pill. Give these twice a day until 

 all the symptoms have disappeared. 



A most excellent wash for the mouth in order to remove the unpleasant smell, 

 s a solution of chlorinated soda, diluted with twenty-four to thirty times its vol- 

 ime of water. Wash out the mouth freely with this several times a day. 



The following will harden the gums and assist in bringing them to a healthy 

 tate: Take powdered alum, % ounce; simple tincture "of myrrh, 1 ounce; dissolve 

 he alum in a pint of water and add the tincture of myrrh. 



The ulcers that occur upon the gums should be touched with a 10-per cent 

 olution of nitrate of silver. :i !i 



MILK-GLANDS, INFLAMMATION OF THE. See MAMMITIS. 

 MENINGITIS. See BRAIN, INFLAMMATION OF THE. 



MILK, ABSENCE OF. This trouble is quite too often met with in bitches, I 

 egret to say. Usually the result of weakness, obesity, or disease of the mam- 

 mary glands. It sometimes is luckily only temporary, and the secretion can be 

 estored with friction to the glands with the hand. The following can be given to 

 weakly bitches: 



Tincture cinchonas co 1 ounce 



Liquor cinchonae '/2 dram 



Spirits of ammonia aromatic \/ z ounce 



Water, to make 6 ounces 



Dose, a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful three times daily, according to size 

 of bitch. 



MAW-WORMS. See WOEMS. 



MAMMITIS, (INFLAMMATION OF THE MILK-GLANDS) frequently occurs. Causes 

 re, retention of milk, the result of taking away the puppies immediately after 

 orn, or too early, or from their death, or cold or injuries. Symptoms are a red- 

 ess and tenderness of the parts, the milk is curdled, and often puss or blood ac- 

 ompanies it, the former if abscesses have formed. Very highly important that 

 uch cases should be attended to at once. As quick as first symptoms are noticed 

 oment the parts with warm water during the day, being careful to dry well after- 

 ward. If caused by the retention of milk by the bitch having lost her puppies, or 

 hey were taken away from her. the milk must be drawn away frequently by the 

 ands. Where possible, and the bitch will permit, a puppy should be given her. 

 ^ive her one to two drams of epsom salts with from ten to twenty grains of 

 icarbonate of soda tWice daily in water, until the bowels are well relaxed. By 

 dopting this treatment in the early stages the inflammation will usually subside 

 nd the gland regain its normal condition. Pus or matter will accumulate 

 1 protracted cases, and abscesses form. The latter must be evacuated by lancing, 

 nd boracic acid lotion or ointment applied to the part night and morning, and to 

 revent her from licking it she should have a muzzle with a piece of canvas sewn 



