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may get one when hedge-trimming is the order of the day. 

 Pins, needles, bearded oats and grass seeds insinuate themselves 

 between the toes, and have been known tJ work up the leg and 

 come out at all sorts of places. 



Treatment. — Find the foreign body before the part has time 

 to fester. The hair being clipped round the suspected spot will 

 facilitate the search. A pair of fine forceps or tweezers may 

 serve for seizing the offending body and withdrawing it. 



Foment with warm water, and dab the wound with Elliman's 

 {see Cuts and Wounds, page 99). 



UDDER TUMOURS. 



Causes. — Taking away the pups all at once, or any neglect 

 that leaves curdled milk in the glands, blows, chills, &c. 



Treatment. — In the early stage nothing more is needed 

 than a few rubbings with Elliman's, but where there is 

 consolidation of the tumour there is no remedy but the knife, 

 and this should of course be left to the veterinary surgeon. 



Prevention. — Remove pups one or two at a time, and see 

 that a bitch is milked out with the finger and thumb if she 

 gives milk out of season, as some virgin bitches will do. 



WORMS. 



Internal parasites play a very important part in the lives 

 of the majority of dogs. On the highest authority we are 

 assured that something like 70% of dogs have tapeworm in 

 England, and this proportion is exceeded on the Continent. 



The principal worms which we need notice are of two kinds, 

 the round and the flat. The ascarides and other round worms 

 are most frequent in puppyhood. 



The flat or tapeworm class are to be found in adults, 

 principally. 



