36 DOGS. 



and to aid his recovery, nourishing food should be 

 allowed him. 



Prevention. The best mode of prevention, or at 

 at least of rendering the attack much less severe, is 

 to keep the young dogs from too much animal food, 

 and give them, whenever costive, a little opening 

 medicine, as jalap, or calomel, or both. Whenever 

 the dog's eyes look red and dull, and the head heavy, 

 this opening medicine is very useful. As another 

 means of prevention, very young dogs should be 

 kept from the water, especially if of tender con- 

 stitutions. 



THE MANGE. 



THIS nauseous and loathsome disease is of the 

 cutaneous kind, that is, affecting the skin, and some- 

 what resembles the itch in the human species: it is 

 usually induced by a want of cleanliness; too close 

 confinement of the animal in a small kennel, where 

 its acrid excrements produce an unhealthy affluvia, is 

 one of the surest modes of originating iti food poor 

 in quality or stinted in quantity, and particularly if 

 salt, also causes this noxious disease, which is conta- 

 gious. Cleanliness, and a little medicine occasionally, 

 on the contrary, is a sure preventive. 



Symptoms. The mange is known by the dog 

 almost constantly scratching himself, and by the 

 skin appearing moist, and sometimes scabby; if the 

 parts affected be examined, pimples or fissures on 

 the skin, many of which are ruptured by the rub- 

 bing, and exude a serous humour, which thickens and 

 forms scabs: this very soon spreads over the should- 

 ers, back, and hinder parts. 



