298 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



be continued, watching my patient carefully throughout 

 the night. 



A note of anxiety called me again to Chetwynd Park 

 on the sth of October, but, beyond enlargement of the 

 lymphatics down the neck, and some remaining indura- 

 tion of the tumour, with external soreness due to the 

 poultices and iodine, I found no immediate cause for alarm. 

 Zinc ointment was applied on lint and iodide of potassium 

 prescribed. On the loth I received a most anxious letter 

 from the owner, in which he abandoned all hope of saving 

 the dog — a relapse having occurred — attributed to a chill 

 on going out of doors in damp grass for the first time. I 

 telegraphed treatment, and advised his admission to, my 

 hospital, which was promptly obeyed, and on the 12th his 

 owner brought him to Hastings ; the wound was still 

 suppurating, and considerable lymphatic enlargements 

 existed, with throbbing of the vessels. The surface of the 

 skin was|weeping, and extremely sensitive. Zinc ointment was 

 applied for a few days, and subsequently iodine, and under 

 careful regime, with exercise on the sea front, the patient 

 made a perfect recovery, and left me in good health and 

 spirits on the i8th November, to the delight of his master, 

 who came for him, — and my own satisfaction. In these 

 glandular diseases I am persuaded the sea coast is most 

 beneficial, whilst severe cases of rheumatism and eczema have 

 left my hospital here in a far shorter space of time than 

 when I resided in the Midlands. 



In the early treatment of bronchocele, the arrestment of 

 growth and promotion of absorption is very important- 

 Unfortunately, however, the case just deseribed had been 

 wrongly diagnosed, by the previous attendant, as having 

 arisen from a blow : hence the aggravation and complica- 

 tions which had followed, and so nearly proved fatal. 

 Few, indeed, would have gone to the trouble, expense, and 

 exercised the patience of the humane owner of this dog 

 " Sandy ;" in fact it is worthy of note that for three weeks 



