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hot fomentations to the part and a dose of aperient medicine ; when 

 due to rheumatism, the systemic treatment recommended vmder 

 Rheumatism should be adopted ; and should there be an enlarge- 

 ment left after the acute inflammation has subsided, the part should 

 be painted daily with tincture of iodine, unless soreness is produced, 

 when this treatment should cease for a day or two. 



OZffiNA.— This complaint shows itself by a discharge from 

 both nostrils. The causes are diseased teeth, protracted catarrh, 

 causing chronic inflammation of the lining membrane of the nose, 

 polypi, or inflammation of the sinuses of the nose, due to the presence 

 of foreign matter in that organ. Where the disease is due to decayed 

 teeth, the latter should be extracted ; or to polypi, these should be 

 removed. The nostrils should be syringed night and morning with 

 a saturated solution of boracic acid ; or the tincture of hydrastis is 

 often useful — 1 part of tincture to equal parts of water. Exercise 

 and fi-esh air are very neeesaary to recovery. 



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PABiA£7SIS. — Most people are familiar with the appearance 

 of paralysis — the loss of muscular power in the part affected, and the 

 consequent wasting of the muscles. It is generally confined to one 

 set of muscles, but may be general, and it varies in degree from pro- 

 ducing a slight tottering gait to complete loss of power and inability 

 to walk. It arises from pressure or injuiy to the brain or to the 

 spinal cord. If one side of the brain be affected, the opposite side of 

 the body will be paralysed ; if the whole of the brain be involved, 

 the paralysis will be general, and where it arises from injury to the 

 spine it is in the parts behind the injury that power is lost. 



Paralysis very often foUows distemper, and the hindquarters 

 generally suffer ; the dog, in severe cases, loses the use of his Mnd 

 legs in walking, and drags them behind him. In such instances the 

 njuscles of the thigh soon waste, and cure is very rare indeed. Long- 

 standing constipation will induce paralysis, and it is not infrequently 

 the result of debility and old age. Paralysis of the lower jaw is a 

 distinctive symptom of dumb madness, and renders the subject of it 

 incapable of biting. Loss of power and wasting of the hindquarters 

 may also be caused by tapeworm. 



So long as the dog can use his Umbs, he should be given regular, 

 gentle exercise. The food should be nourishing, and rather laxa- 

 tive. Oatmeal porridge, mixed with strong broth, every other 

 day, will generally act gently on the bowels. Where the disease 



