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‘out the fluid. This may be sufficient; but it may continue some days if a 
blow has been the cause. The fluid may collect two or three times if the 
opening is not kept free, in which case inject a little warm water, and bind 
the animal so as to keep the ear in a vessel of warm water for five or ten 
minutes once daily for several days. 
SORE FOOT. 
This disorder affects the elastic bottom of the foot, and is caused by 
any of the many mechanical injuries incident to running about: The paw 
swells, bleeds, is painful, scales off, perhaps has hard lumps, causing the dog 
to limp, and possibly the skin and nails to come off. 
TREATMENT.—Carefully remove grit, thorns, or other foreign sub- 
‘stances, bathe in warm water, apply cloths saturated with arnica-lotion, giv- 
ing arnica internally at the same time. If there are signs of fever and 
suppuration is threatened, apply linseed poultices containing a few drops of 
arnica. If suppuration has taken place, open the sore, and apply poultices 
mixed with a few drops of calendula, night and morning. When all the 
matter is removed, in place of the poultices use cloths saturated with calen- 
dula-lotion. During such applications, muzzle the dog to keep him from 
tearing them off. When improvement begins, put on a shoe, preferably 
leather, to keep out dirt and remove pressure for a few days. If the feet 
are merely tender, the licking of them by the dog will often suffice; great 
relief may also be given by warm fomentations. 
GENERAL MENTION OF DISORDERS. 
Disorders which occur more or less often in dogs, but are not specially 
treated here because they are quite easily recognized, and are sufficiently 
considered in the Horse to enable one to select suitable treatment from their 
respective articles in Part I, are Dropsy, Abscesses, Boils, Tumors, Warts, 
Burns, Scalds, Gonorrhoea, Protrusion of the Rectum and Womb, Cataract, 
Pterygium, Cuts, and other Wounds and Injuries. 
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