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injected, and frequently mucus is deposited in the corner ; 

 the lymphatic glands are large and easily felt ; very often 

 the skull (especially the front portion) is unusually large. 

 This latter is more particularly noticeable in puppyhood, 

 and gives the idea, not unfrequently a correct one, of water 

 on the brain. 



Scrofula, when once localised, may remain latent for a 

 long period, or gradually and manifestly developed. In an 

 hereditary diathesis, it usually exhibits itself shortly before 

 the animal arrives at maturity, or, as in the human subject, 

 remains through life in statu quo, to become developed and 

 distinctly marked in the offspring. 



Treatment. — I need scarcely observe that the treatment 

 of scrofula in the dog is of far less importance than are pre- 

 ventive measures. When treatment is adopted, it should 

 be merely for humanity's sake, and never for the purpose 

 of maintaining life in order to perpetuate the breed. A 

 tainted strain of this description is neither a credit to the 

 breeder, nor beneficial to the canine race. 



The treatment is both local and constitutional. The 

 former consists in cold baths and friction, and keeping the 

 skin dry and warm. Cleanliness is of great importance. 

 Animals that are allowed to live in filth, and remain un- 

 washed, uncombed or brushed, under such circumstances 

 are exposed to the development of strumous affections. It 

 has been wrongly supposed that the dog does not perspire: 

 hence perhaps one reason for negligence in attention to his 

 body, externally. He not only perspires, but does so freely, 

 and the arrest *of such perspiration, from uncleanliness, 

 cutaneous disease, and the like, creates serious functional 

 derangement (from re-absorption of matters which are pre- 

 vented from escaping by their natural outlet) internally, 

 and lays the foundation for disease of a strumous character, 

 in addition to other disorders. 



With regard to constitutional treatment, iodine, iron, 

 bark, and cod-liver oil are the agents most to be relied upon. 



