SOKE FEET—WOOES. 
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Two or three applications of the above will have the desired 
effect. It proceeds from an irritability of the skin. Some 
sportsmen use the above, as a preventive, two or three times 
during the season, and before the sporting-time particularly. 
SORE FEET. 
During the hunting and shooting seasons, dogs are very 
liable to be affected with sore feet: they should be fre¬ 
quently washed with strong brine, pot-liquor, or salt and 
vinegar, a handful of the former to a pint of the latter 
But as it will be found easier to prevent than cure the affec¬ 
tion, we would recommend that the feet of dogs should be 
washed every day, on returning from the field, with pot- 
liquor or brine, which will have the effect of hardening the 
skin. 
When the feet have become sore and continue raw, let 
them be well washed with a solution of soda, and then the 
following mixture applied three or four times a day with a 
feather:— 
Sulphuric acid . . .6 drops, 
Tincture of myrrh . 1 ounce. 
WOUNDS. 
Dogs are very liable to be wounded when in pursuit of 
game, or in their ardour in ranging to find it. 
When these wounds are of a superficial kind, they will 
only require to be washed, and afterwards, by the dog con¬ 
stantly licking them, they soon heaL But where they are 
of a more serious character, other means must be adopted. 
The mode of cure will depend upon the situation and nature 
of the wound, and other circumstances. 
We would, however, generally recommend that they 
should be washed with Friar's balsam, or tincture of myrrh. 
