348 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
The first-named drug may also be used externally, in cases 
presenting enlarged glands or chronic abscess. 
The diet should be liberal and nutritious. Daily exercise, 
and everything calculated to invigorate the system should 
be adopted. 
Messrs. Gowing and Son record the following case of 
“ Scrofula in a Puppy.” 
* The morbid parts forwarded are from a bull puppy 
between two and three months old. Hewas broughtto me 
on the oth instant, much emaciated and wasted ; and from 
the distended, pendulous condition cf the abdomen, he was 
apparently suffering from ascites. I requested the owner 
to leave him with me. He died some time during the night. 
“Post-morten.—Upon opening the abdomen, the cavity 
was full of serous fluid; and upon slitting open the intes- 
tines, the mucous membrane was observed to be highly in- 
flamed through its entire course, but the peritoneal surface 
was only slightly discoloured in places. 
* Some worms were found in the intestinal canal, which 
was somewhat contracted. The heart and liver I have for- 
warded to you, as they ‘both give evidence of disease. 
“ A further history of the animal from the owner was to 
the effect that a fellow-pup died from the same disease, | 
having a distended abdomen, wasting of flesh, and showing 
the same symptoms:as the pup alluded to. The father of 
these pups was a fine specimen of the bull-dog, weighing 
upwards of forty pounds; he was of the Wallace breed, a 
famous strain. 
“ Some time ago I operated upon him for a cartilaginous 
growth on the cartilage of the eye; he did very well, and 
at that time was in good health and blooming condition. 
His owner gave him to a friend. Some months afterwards 
he was sent to me again, much wasted in flesh, with pen- 
dulous abdomen, suffering from the same disease as the 
pup, having a quantity of serous fluid in the abdominal 
cavity. Treatment was recommended ; but some weeks 
