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recommenced so soon as the slightest trace of the dis- 

 order reappears. 



GENERATrVE OKGANS. MALE. 



These parts in the dogs are liable to Tarious diseases, 

 among the most common of which is a thick discharge, 

 either of pus or of impure mucus. Petted animals are 

 very frequently thus affected, and are a source of annoy- 

 ance to those who lap them. In this condition they also 

 offend the ideas of propriety, by paying certain lingual 

 attentions to themselves without regard to privacy. The 

 favourite is for these things repeatedly chid and thrust 

 from the knee ; but it cannot be instructed to forego the 

 impulses of its nature, or of itself to restrain the symp- 

 toms of its aflSiction. Indeed, the dog is not to blame ; 

 the fault lies with the owner. 



The generative organs, in the male of the canine spe- 

 cies, are peculiarly sympathetic with the digestive func- 

 tions. This is so with man, but in the dog it is much 

 more strongly marked. If a dog become from bad food 

 affected with mange, canker, sore feet, &c., the part is 

 never cleanly. When, however, the animal is fat and 

 gross, though neither mange, canker, nor other disease be 

 present, the organ may, nevertheless, be a source of pain- 

 ful irritation, and beyond a little thin fluid about the 

 opening of the prepuce, there will be nothing to attract 

 attention. 



In such a case the discharge originally is thick and 

 mattery. It accumulates upon the few hairs that fringe 



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