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probable that there will be found a dark granular substance, 

 which is dried blood, or perhaps a discharge of thin liquid, 

 or, if in an advanced stage, a thick dark liquid smelling 

 offensively ; or if it be external canker, the lowest part of 

 the flap of the ear will be cracked and discharging matter. 

 This disease is caused by high feeding and confinement, 

 and dogs are rendered half mad by the perpetual irritation 

 caused by the constant itching. 



Pointers and setters are most liable to this disease, 

 because they are so much confined to their kennels during 

 a greater pai't of the year. Canker is infectious, and a 

 dog suffering from it should be isolated from other dogs. 

 A very good remedy is to apjjly morning and evening an 

 ointment made with 2 oz. of glycerine, 2 drs. of tincture 

 of Hydrastes Canadensis, ^ dr. of carbolic acid, well mixed. 

 It should be applied with a camel's-hair pencil. 



Also a good formula for a large dog is to give two of 

 Kirby's pearl-coated rhubarb pills in the morning in a 

 lump of meat once a week for a fortnight, and a dessert- 

 spoonful of Parrish's Chemical Pood in a pint of boiled 

 milk daily for three weeks, and apply the following lini- 

 ment morning and evening with a camel's-hair pencil into 

 the interior of the ears : 3 oz. olive oil, ^ oz. glycerine, 

 ^ oz. extract of lead, and 6 drops of laudanum. 



Another formula here given is considered also very 

 efficacious. Mix ^ dr. of wine of opium and 6 grs. of sul- 

 phate of zinc in ^ oz. of distilled water. Drop 4 drops 

 into each ear daily, and the first day of doing this ad- 

 minister a dessert-spoonful of castor oil, fasting. Then 

 daily for five or six days a dessert-spoonful of the following 

 mixture : J oz. of sweet spirit of nitre, i dr. of powdered 

 nitre, i dr. of wine of antimony, | oz. of mindererus spirit 

 in 21 oz. of water, the bottle to be well shaken before 

 using. Of course, a smaller quantity for a small dog. For 

 diet give a mixture of gravy, meat, and vegetables, also 

 oatmeal porridge, plenty of fresh air and exercise; if there 

 be any waxy, hard substance in the ears, sponge gently 

 with warm water, but dry it most thoroughly with a fine 



