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such as panting and a tendency to faint. The bath should 

 not be continued more than ten minutes, and the patient 

 should be rapidly dried to an extent, and then wrapped 

 up in a blanket on removal. Occasionally it will be found 

 that the hot bath proves too much for the animal ; he 

 must then be swiftly withdrawn and supported by 

 stimulants. 



Cold Bathing and Bandaging prove valuable for general 

 or local tonic purposes. The former is specially needed 

 in certain nervous disorders and in atony of the skin, the 

 latter for certain injuries. After bathing or washing of 

 any kind it is well that dogs should have their ears and 

 eyes thoroughly cleansed from soap or water and tho- 

 roughly dried, even with greater assiduity than other parts 

 of the body. In dogs with rheumatic or jaundice ten- 

 dency cold bathing is specially to be avoided, and for 

 routine daily cleansing dry rubbing is to be preferred to 

 washing. 



Washing should not be practised too often, or it will 

 spoil the coat. The yolk of egg is preferable to soap for 

 cleansing the skin of the dog. We owe this useful fact 

 to Mayhew, who smears the yellow well into the hair, 

 pours a little water on to the back and rubs it up into a 

 lather, then clears it off by copious ablutions ; but, even if 

 some is left on, the dog will not on its account neglect his 

 personal appearance. The egg does not irritate his eyes 

 and skin as soap does. 



Blkeding of dogs is seldom resorted to in the present 

 day but will occasionally be found useful. It may be per- 

 formed at the jugular or, less often, at the cephalic and 

 saphena. The dog is first muzzled and then held steady j 

 the vein is opened by means of a small fleam as used for 

 sheep, or of a lancet, after having in the case of the jugular 

 been raised by a ligature around the neck and the hair 

 over the seat of operation having been cut off ; 6 — 12 fluid 

 ounces may be withdrawn, but this is rather too much 

 in most cases, Blaine says one to eight ounces may be taken 

 according to the size of the dog. Ohabert agrees that 

 one or two hectogrammes of blood may be withdrawn from 



