320 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



At the commencement the diet must be changed, for 

 the manner of feeding is at fault. The remedies proper 

 to improve the general health must be employed, and 

 everything done to restore the system. 



To the scrotum a mild ointment will be sufficient. 

 Should that not succeed, some of those recommended 

 for mange may be tried ; or the surface may be lightly 

 passed over once with a stick of lunar caustic, care being 

 taken to tie the head of the dog up afterwards to prevent 

 it licking the part. 



The measures already spoken of apply only to mild 

 and recent cases. "When the disease has probably exist- 

 ed for years, such remedies will be of little service. The 

 skin being unnaturally hard and thick, feeling like carti- 

 lage, and giving the idea that a firm or resistant tumor is 

 connected with the integument ; such being the condition 

 of the part, the surgeon pauses before he advises it 

 should be interfered with. As it seems to be possessed 

 of small sensibility, and appears to have assumed a form 

 in which there is a probability of its remaining, the less 

 done to the local affection the better. 



The relief should be directed wholly to keep the can- 

 cer, for such it is, in a passive or quiescent state. There 

 is no hope that nature will remove it ; and every effort 

 must be made to prevent its malignant character being by 

 accident or otherwise provoked. With a little care the 

 dog may die of old age, and the disease may even at the 

 time of death be dormant. A very mild mercurial oint- 

 ment may be daily applied to the surface. This will re- 



