346 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



relief, and the case is improving under the application of 

 pure carbolic acid, frequent meals of soft warm food, and 

 iodine paint externally. 



When periostitis is associated with internal cancer 

 (otitis) the pain is most acute and agonising, and by 

 ignorant people the symptoms manifested under such 

 suffering have been mistaken for those of rabies. Very 

 recently an illustration of this fact occurred in London. 

 I fortunately saw the supposed rabid animal, and dis- 

 covered severe otitis, which finally yielded to treatment. 



Symptoms. — The manifestations of periostitis vary little 

 from those attending ostitis. The pain, as in the human 

 subject, is more superficial ; the swelling, however, is more 

 marked, and the general results less serious. 



Treatment. — Remedial measures must be based on the 

 same lines as those prescribed for ostitis. Division of the 

 periosteum, sub-cutaneous periosteotomy, an operation I 

 have frequently performed, has been practised with con- 

 siderable success. Periosteal abscess must be treated on 

 ordinary surgical principles. 



SCROFULA. 



Scrofula is a disease of common occurrence among the 

 lower animals, and the canine race forms no exception to 

 the fact. 



As with human beings, so with the dog ; it is usually met 

 with in early life, and is traceable to those causes which 

 give rise to it in our own species— such as near relationship 

 in breeding, and certain morbid conditions of one or both 

 parents. 



Among the predisposing causes may be named insufficient 

 and improper food, impure air, exposure to wet and cold. 



Symptoms. — Animals, when so affected, are usually un- 

 thrifty and delicate ; the coat is dry and harsh, the abdomen 

 full and pendulous ; the eyes are watery, the conjunctiva 



