348 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



The first-named drug may also be used externally, in cases 

 presenting enlarged glands or chronic abscess. 



The diet should be liberal and nutritious. Daily exercise, 

 and everything calculated to invigorate the system should 

 be adopted. 



Messrs. Gowing and Son record the following case of 

 *' Scrofula in a Puppy." 



" The morbid parts forwarded are from a bull puppy 

 between two and three months old. He was brought to me 

 on the 9th instant, much emaciated and wasted ; and from 

 the distended, pendulous condition of the abdomen, he was 

 apparently suffering from ascites. I requested the owner 

 to leave him with me. He died some time during the night. 



^^Post-mortem. — Upon opening the abdomen, the cavity 

 was full of serous fluid ; and upon slitting open the intes- 

 tines, the mucous membrane was observed to be highly in- 

 flamed through its entire course, but the peritoneal surface 

 was only slightly discoloured in places. 



"Some worms were found in the intestinal canal, which 

 was somewhat contracted. The heart and liver I have for- 

 warded to you, as they both give evidence of disease. 



" A further history of the animal from the owner was to 

 the effect that a fellow-pup died from the same disease, 

 having a distended abdomen, wasting of flesh, and showing 

 the same symptoms as the pup alluded to. The father of 

 these pups was a fine specimen of the bull-dog, weighing 

 upwards of forty pounds ; he was of the Wallace breed, a 

 famous strain. 



" Some time ago I operated upon him for a cartilaginous 

 growth on the cartilage of the eye ; he did very well, and 

 at that time was in good health and blooming condition. 

 His Owner gave him to a friend. Some months afterwards 

 he was sent to me again, much wasted in flesh, with pen- 

 dulous abdomen, suffering from the same -disease as the 

 pup, having a quantity of serous fluid in the abdominal 

 cavity. Treatment was recommended ; but some weeks 



