104 DISEASES OF THE GREYHOUND. 



diseased dog so much, that I have little patience when I fancy the 

 cure as uncertain or remote as in the disease in question. 



ANAEMIA. 



This is the result of imperfect nutrition, and is that state of the 

 system in which the blood-vessels contain too little blood, and that 

 of a thinner consistence and paler colour than natural. The dog 

 looks half-starved, and his lips and tongue are almost the colour 

 of human skin ; the hair is weak, and without lustre, and there is 

 often a slight swelling, without pitting, of the cellular membrane 

 of the lower part of the legs and of the feet. It generally occurs 

 in young dogs which have been reared in confined situations, such 

 as the back yard of a town-house, or even in the country, where 

 the pure air and light are excluded, as in any dark hayloft, 

 or similar place. This state of the blood may be got rid of 

 by pure country air and good food, especially with the addition 

 of steel, in the form of carbonate of iron, ten grains twice a 

 day. If the appetite is very bad, it is better to unite the 

 sulphates of iron and quinine in grain doses ; but in the grey- 

 hound the injury to the constitution is generally irreparable. 

 Worms are often at the bottom of the disease, or, at all events, 

 they aggravate it so much, that they must be removed before any 

 remedies can be expected to succeed. A spoonful of cod-liver oil 

 mixed with five drops of vinum ferri, and given twice a day, has 

 often effected a cure in apparently hopeless cases. 



