100 DISEASES OF THE GEEYHOUND. 



knife, it will, like cancer, almost invariably return. It most 

 frequently shows itself in the eye, or in the glands of the throat, 

 forming a soft spongy and bleeding fungous tumour. By its 

 softness it may be readily distinguished from, cancer, which is of 

 a stony hardness, and there is also a much quicker growth in 

 fungus hcematodes and a greater tendency to bleed. Bitches are 

 subject to its attack on the organs of generation, and they are 

 then almost invariably barren, though, from the constant irritation 

 of the diseased mass, they will take the dog nearly at any time. 

 There is at first no external appearance of disease, and the only 

 symptom of its presence is the frequent return of the signs of 

 6 heat.' In a few months, however, there is a swelling around the 

 orifice of the vagina, which indicates the exact nature of the 

 disease. Nothing can be done in these cases, and the bitch should 

 at once be put out of pain. 



EPILEPSY. 



This may arise from irritation of various kinds, which can 

 often be specifically ascertained to exist, such as worms, dentition, 

 or the congestion of the brain accompanying distemper ; but it 

 may also occur from some unknown cause throughout the whole 

 life of the animal. This last is genuine idiopathic epilepsy, 

 and, when firml established, is very little under the control of 

 medicine the attack is not ushered in by any premonitory 



