326 dogs; their management. 



Lands are sufficiently nice to employ them. The stones 

 I have met with were of a size I would not have liked 

 to have drawn through the urethra; and therefore, 

 though I will not assert lithotomy cannot be performed 

 ■upon the dog, I must confess I have not, performed it, 

 and must say I should require strong inducements to 

 attempt it upon the animal. 



All I aim at is to limit the increase of the deposit, and 

 to alleviate the painful symptoms it gives rise to. A 

 strictly, vegetable diet best accomplishes the first object, 

 and doses, of ether and laudanum, repeatedly administered 

 by mouth and injection, most speedily secure the second. 

 Pills of henban?: are likewise of service; and with them 

 small quantities of the balsams may be combined, thougfh. 

 the last should not be continu,ed if they have any marked 

 diuretic action. The peppers, especially cubebs, I have 

 thought serviceable, and very minute doses of cantharides 

 Lave seemed to be attended with benefit. Here, how- 

 ever, I speak with doubt; for the agents Lave by me 

 been employed only in Lomoeopa,tLic quantities, and I 

 Lave not tLe means of saying tLey Lad very decided 

 action. They appeared to do good, since under their 

 use the animals improved ; a.nd that ig a,U I can state in 

 their behalf. Proprietors, Loiwever, when the pressing 

 annoyance is allayed, being told there is no prospect of a 

 radical cure, do not generally afford us much opportunity 

 to watch the action of medicines. 



Hsematuria or bloody urine is met with in the dog ; and 

 I (Laving been unfortunate in tLp^e ca,ses wLere I 



