INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. 139 



INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. 



CALCULUS : KUPTURE, BLENNOKRHAGIA AND MALIGNANT DISEASE. 

 The dog is very subject to these various complaints, but, as so 

 very little can be done for their relief, it is scarcely worth while 

 to occupy the time of my readers by any elaborate account of the 

 symptoms of each. One of these, however, is so very common 

 that I may just describe it in few words, This is blennorrhagia, 

 or a discharge of mucus from the urethra of the male. It arises 

 from various causes, some of which I can scarcely describe, in 

 decent language. For this I have found Venice turpentine in 

 5 -grain doses as a pill, a very effectual remedy, or from 15 to 20 

 drops of the balsam of copaiba made into an emulsion with 

 mucilage, and either of them given three times a day. The 

 medicine must be perseveringly used for at least three or four 

 weeks, or the disease will assuredly return. Malignant disease of 

 the bladder can only be suspected during life, and, if discovered, is 

 without remedy. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE SKIN. 



MANGE, BLOTCH, WARTS, CANKER OF THE EAR, SURFEIT, ERUP- 

 TION BETWEEN THE TOES, &c. The various eruptions of dogs are, 

 I believe, little understood, and in rny own kennel I am happy to 



