DISEASES OF CATS 107 



one-grain doses of iodide of potash can be com- 

 bined with tonics. The best of the latter are 

 quinine, Huxham's tincture, and syrup of wild 

 cherry bark. Fowler's solution may be used 

 in two-drop doses. Baths of sulphur water 

 are beneficial. If there is much irritation an 

 ointment of one part bitrine ointment and 

 eight parts of lard is soothing and healing. 

 In canker of the ear, iodoform as a powder, or 

 mixed with balsam of Peru, can be dropped 

 into the ear. Once a day the ear should be 

 cleansed with a pleget of cotton on a match or 

 small probe. 



MUk-fever. 



When an entire litter of kittens has been re- 

 moved from the mother at once, the accumula- 

 tion of milk swells the mammary glands, and, 

 if not relieved, cakes, and produces a local in- 

 flammation in this organ, which ends with the 

 formation of abscesses, and is excessively pain- 

 ful. The irritation of this mammitis, as the 

 local trouble is called, produces a considerable 

 amount of fever, attended with vomiting and 

 sometimes diarrhoea. A wound or other injury 



