CANKER 73 



soft rag, and drop in two drops of warmed salad oil. Damp 

 and cold will aggravate this disease and often bring it on. 

 Canker sometimes infests the mouth and gums ; then 

 all loose teeth and stumps should be extracted ; and put 

 in the dog's dinner for a few days as much bicarbonate of 

 potash as will lie on a sixpence, and give a table-spoonful 

 or dessert-spoonful (according to size of dog) of castor oil, 

 and afterwards a course of pills made with 48 grs. of 

 powdered rhubarb, 1^ gr. extract of gentian, 16 grs. of 

 carbonate of soda, and sufficient gum acacia mixed and 

 divided into twenty pills, coated with tasteless varnish; 

 one given in the evening ; half a pill if the dog is small, 

 and still less if the dog is very small. The food should be 

 plain, and plenty of exercise given. 



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This is most generally the result of bad distemper, and 

 is purely a nervous affection. The symptoms are quiver- 

 ing and twitching. The dog, if he sleeps, seems aroused 

 by dreams, and then goes on twitching ; it differs from 

 palsy, inasmuch as in the latter the whole body shakes all 

 over. This disease emanates from the spine or in the 

 nervous system. Sometimes the twitchings are accom- 

 panied by diarrhcea or inflammation of the stomach. 



Everything should be given to build up the dog's 

 system, and plenty of milk given ; beef-tea, mutton broth, 

 with oatmeal added in proportion to the looseness of the 

 bowels. If the bowels are constipated a Kirby's pearl- 

 coated rhubarb pill should be given, or a dose of castor oil. 

 As the dog improves and strengthens, give it a few drops 

 of Fer Bravais in its drinking water and some Frame Food. 

 Do not let it take much exercise, but give it fresh air and 

 pure ventilation. This is one of the almost incurable diseases 

 dogs suffer from, especially collie dogs, who are very liable to 

 it after distemper. The enclosed prescription for pills is 

 most efficacious, one given morning and evening: 36 grs. 

 of valerianate of iron, 12 drops of oil of savin, and sufficient 



