98 DISEASES OF THE GREYHOUND. 



from experience, I have nothing to recommend in such a case. 

 Here, as in most other cases, I am anxious to enforce preventive 

 rather than curative means, as I have no faith in the strength of 

 constitution for either running or breeding purposes of a dog 

 which has been subjected to a long course of medicine for any 

 disease. I have been told that the wet sheet packing, as used in 

 hydropathic establishments, is very efficacious in anasarca, but I 

 have never tried it, and can only give the evidence of a friend, 

 who speaks highly of its power of producing an increased flow of 

 urine. 



CANCER AND OTHER MALIGNANT DISEASES. 

 FUNGUS H^EMATODES. 



This incurable class of diseases is undoubtedly constitutional 

 in its origin, and though when showing itself externally, either 

 in the mammae or in any other part, it may be removed by the 

 knife, yet the remedy is only temporary, and the disease either 

 reappears in the same part, or in some internal and most probably 

 vital organ. The most common seat of cancer is the female 

 mamma, and it generally occurs in bitches which have been kept 

 from the dog, though I have seen it several times in terrier bitches 

 which have had two litters a year for several years together. For 

 the purposes to which the greyhound is put it is quite useless to 

 attempt removal, as the animal is not likely to be sound enough 



