Diseases of the Ear. 197 
‘these constitutional and general symptoms diminish in 
severity, then those characteristic of the local disease 
become gradually and more manifestly evinced. The 
animal has a dull, heavy, and rather a watery eye; he 
moans or whines at intervals ; and if his master be present 
he feels a pleasure, a confidence, and a relief ,in pressing 
-and rubbing his aching ear against any part of his master’s 
body. Under other circumstances he presses and harrows 
it against the ground, so as to obtain a slight relief, and 
then with an instinctive feeling he flaps his ears and shakes 
his head rapidly and repeatedly, so as to keep up the 
pleasurable relief he thus obtains. Should the symptoms 
‘be not so severe as those which I have now mentioned, the 
animal may still be suspected, at a glance, to be labouring 
under acute disease of the ear, by his running about with 
little intermission, his mouth open, and tongue protruded, 
and panting, and with a stupid sensibility shaking his head, 
amd pointing the affected ear to the ground. These 
symptoms are, however, most commonly allowed to pass 
wnheeded, and in a few days a partial relief is obtained to 
‘the animal by the sudden and profuse discharge of a quan- 
tity of foetid pus. From this time the general and consti- 
tutional symptoms disappear, and those indicative of the 
local affection are alone predominant. The local discharge 
-ef pus, or pus and blood, becomes daily more and more 
feetid, in consequence of the extension of the disease to the 
body tissue of the meatus, and the poor animal is thrust 
aside as an object of loathing and disgust. 
“Should the dog, in the earlier stage of the disease, be 
muzzled and cast, and an inspection of the meatus be had 
recourse to, then there will either be found a phlegmonous 
abscess of the cellulo-fibrous structure of the meatus, 
¢ircumscribed dermo-periostitis of the inner part of the 
tube; with caries of the osseous portion, or internal muco- 
tympanitis, with perforation of the membrana tympani, and 
evacuation of the matter along the external canal. 
