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yard, where there is more room for her to exercise herself. Give 
the mixture, and use the embrocation every second day. 
April 10 th. — She has mange in the bend of her arm, and on 
her chest. Ointment and alterative balls ; the embrocation and 
mixture to be omitted. As soon as the mange began to appear, 
she nearly recovered from her lameness, and ran about almost as 
well as ever. 
30 th. — She runs about very fairly, but the mange has assumed 
that character of scurvy which we do not know how to grapple 
with. Give the alterative balls, and use the ointment. 
May 18f4. — The mange has disappeared, but the palsy is 
returning: she staggers slightly, and every now and then droops 
behind. Give the castor-oil mixture, and use the embrocation. 
June 14 th. — Mange quite gone, but palsy continuing not so 
bad as at first, but to a very considerable degree. I want the 
plaister, but the keeper pleads for a little delay. Continue treat- 
ment. 
26th, — She has been strongly at heat ; but this seemed neither 
to increase or lessen the paralytic affection : of course, she was 
not permitted to have access to the dog. She has been very 
fidgetty, but the oestrum is now going off. The palsy remains 
the same. 
July 1 st. — I have at length determined to have recourse to 
the plaister. A piece of good thick sheep’s leather was fitted to 
her loins and haunches ; a pound of pitch and a quarter of an 
ounce of bees’ wax were melted together, and spread over it ; 
ten grains of cantharides, most finely powdered, were sprinkled 
over the plaister, and it w as applied as hot as it could be with- 
out scalding her. It fitted, and fixed itself beautifully. Give 
a dose of the mixture when she is costive. 
18fA. — She appears to be improving, but it is very slowly. 
31sL — Very little change. The plaister keeps on well ; she 
has no power over her hind limbs j but she eats and drinks as 
well as ever. 
Aug. 23 d . — No kind of change. The strychnine is seemingly 
doing good to the Alpine dog. Give her half a grain morning 
and night. 
2 6th. — That singular secretion of milk to which the bitch is 
subject nine weeks after oestrum is now appearing. Her mammae 
are enlarged, and I can squeeze a good deal of milk out of the 
teats. She is fidgetty, but otherwise is w'ell. She still has her 
mixture \vhen the bowels are constipated. Give an aloetic pill 
now. 
31sL — The secretion of milk continues. There is slight en- 
largement and some heat of the mammae ; but she feeds as well 
