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injected, and frequently mucus is deposited in the corner; 
the lymphatic glandsare large and easily {elt ; very often 
the skull (especially the front portion) is unusually large. 
This latter is more particularly noticeable in puppyhood, 
and gives the idea, not unfrequently a correct one, of water 
on the brain. 
Scrofula, when once localised, may remain latent for a 
long period, or gradually and manifestly developed. In an 
hereditary diathesis, it usually exhibits itself shortly before | 
the animal arrives at maturity, or, as in the human subject, 
remains through life zz s¢atz quo, to become developed and 
distinctly marked in the offspring. 
Treatment.—I need scarcely observe that the treatment 
of scrofula in the dog is of far less importance than.are pre- 
ventive measures. When treatment is adopted, it should 
be merely for humanity’s sake, and never for the purpose 
of maintaining life in order to perpetuate the breed. A 
tainted strain of this description is neither a credit to the 
breeder, nor beneficial to the canine race. 
The treatment is both local and constitutional. The 
former consists in cold baths and friction, and keeping the 
skin dry and warm. Cleanliness is of great importance. 
Animals that are allowed to live in filth, and remain un- 
washed, uncombed or brushed, under such circumstances 
are exposed to the development of strumous affections. It 
has been wrongly supposed that the dog does not perspire: 
hence perhaps one reason for negligence in attention to his 
body, externally. He not only perspires, but does so freely, 
and the arrest of such perspiration, from uncleanliness, 
cutaneous disease, and the like, creates serious functional 
derangement (from re-absorption of matters which are pre- 
vented from escaping by their natural outlet) internally, 
and lays the foundation for disease of a strumous character, 
in addition to other disorders. 
With regard to constitutional treatment, iodine, iron, 
bark, and cod-liver oil are the agents most to be relied upon. 
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