346 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
relief, and the case is improving under the application of 
pure carbolic acid, frequent meals of soft warm food, and 
iodine paint externally. 
When periostitis is associated with ‘internal canker 
(otitis) the pain is most acute and agonising, and by 
‘ignorant people the symptoms manifested under “such 
suffering have been mistaken for those of rabies. Very 
recently an illustration of this fact occurred in London. 
I fortunately saw the supposed rabid animal, and dis- 
covered severe otitis, which finally yielded to treatment. 
Symptoms.—The manifestations of periostitis vary little 
from those attending ostitis. The pain, as in the human 
subject, is more superficial ; the swelling, however, is more 
marked, and the general results less serious. 
Treatment.— Remedial measures must be based on the 
same lines as those prescribed for ostitis. Division of the 
periosteum, sub-cutaneous periosteotomy, an operation | 
have frequently performed, has been practised with con- 
siderable success. Periosteal abscess must be treated on 
ordinary surgical principles. 
SCROFULA. 
Scrofula is a disease of common occurrence among the 
lower animals, and the canine race forms no exception to 
the fact. 
As with human beings, so with the dog ; it is usually met 
with in early life, and is traceable to those causes which 
give rise to it in our own species—such as near relationship 
in breeding, and certain morbid conditions of one or both 
parents. 
Among the predisposing causes may be named insufficient 
and improper food, impure air, exposure to wet and cold. 
Symptoms—Animals, when so affected, are usually un- 
thrifty and delicate ; the coat is dry and harsh, the abdomen 
full and pendulous ; the eyes are watery, the conjunctiva 
