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have been cleared out by a cathartic. The diet should 

 be thoroughly changed, full exercise given, and the litter 

 frequently destroyed. Hill's dressing consists of sixteen 

 parts each of sublimed sulphur and whale oil, well blended, 

 with one part each of mercurial ointment and oil of tar. 

 He suggests daily scalding of the kennel with boiling 

 water, and bedding on plain straw or shavings. He uses 

 oil of turpentine one part, whale oil six parts, ordinary 

 sulphur ointment, and benzine or paraffin in slight cases. 

 Mayhew applied daily, for three times, resin ointment very 

 much thickened with sublimed sulphur and then diluted 

 with oil of Juniper. Fleming suggests sulphuret of potas- 

 sium one part, to rain water five parts, a 2 per cent, 

 solution of corrosive sublimate in water, or carbolic acid 

 dissolved in soapsuds (1 — 40), or a carefully incorporated 

 mixture of oil of tar and sulphur, each one ounce, in a pint 

 of common oil. His hint that " for house-dogs, and espe- 

 cially those with fine skins and smooth hair, a very excel- 

 lent and safe remedy is the balsam of Pern, dissolved in 

 alcohol (one of balsam to four of alcohol) ; this is an 

 effective acaricide and has not an unpleasant, odour," is well 

 worth adoption. Nunn suggests for pet house-dogs 

 stavesacre seeds digested in olive oil (1 — 8), and quotes 

 Gerlach's recommendation to use creasote for short-haired 

 dogs but decoction of tobacco for long-haired, with the 

 comment that creasote is of objectionable odour, changes 

 the colour of the hair, and (especially in white terriers) 

 gives it a harsh texture. It should be diluted with 25 — 

 30 parts of oil. The decoction of tobacco should be made 

 by pouring 25 — 30 parts of water on one of the dried 

 leaves and immersing the dog for from five to ten minutes 

 while it is still warm. Gamgee applied twice or thrice, at 

 intervals of a day or two, the following : Creasoti 1\ parts, 

 Sp. Vini Rect. 15 parts, Aquae 11 — 14 parts. It is unneces- 

 sary here to supplement the above formulas, which will 

 quite meet the peculiarities of different cases and serve 

 for periodical changes of applications as required. To 

 summarise : change of diet, improved hygiene, thorough 

 cleansing and disinfection of kenneL and thorough destruc- 



