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the disease is tolerably far advanced. In dogs, however, the case 
is different; we are expected to treat them, as they are the 
creatures more frequently of affection than of pecuniary interest. 
In these animals we, probably, more often find cutaneous tuber¬ 
cular ulcer in connection with the glands of the throat than in 
any other; and in treating these ulcers several measures may be 
had recourse to; if it can be done without danger, excision is the 
readiest and surest remedy, if not, scarifying the edges of the 
ulcer, and applying carbolic pads and bandages will frequently 
heal them, at the same time administering such catalytics as iron, 
arsenic, or iodine, either separately or alternately, with raw eggs, 
raw meat, as tripe, and cod-liver oil. A word or two, in passing, 
as to the action of the last-mentioned agent in this disease. Eat, 
we know, is the molecular base of chyle; it is also the basis of 
muscular tissue, independent of its being an element of respira¬ 
tion ; and it is in these ways, coupled with its easily assimilable 
nature, that it has been thought to act beneficially in tubercle. 
Several circumstances that have come under my notice have led 
me to a somewhat different conclusion (it would be premature of 
me to state these circumstauces until I am in a position to speak 
more definitely in the matter), viz., that the particles of fat sur¬ 
round the particles of tubercular matter in the system, and 
render them innocuous. Another very beneficial action of cod- 
liver oil is as a restorative of the suppressed sebaceous secretion 
of the skin. I have seen the skins of animals to which it has 
been administered change very rapidly from a harsh, dry con¬ 
dition to one of sleekness and health, protecting, also, the body 
from the vicissitudes and injurious influences of the atmosphere. 
With cod-liver oil glycerine should be given, as also alcohol, in 
some shape, being not only elements of respiration, but preserva¬ 
tives of tissue. Small doses of carbolic acid may also be given 
with benefit in conjunction with oil, the bowels well attended to, 
the skin kept clean, and. gentle exercise allowed. One symptom 
I should mention in dogs in chronic tuberculosis (though, per¬ 
haps, you will say it is an accompaniment of all debilitating dis¬ 
eases; nevertheless, I have seen it in this affection in other 
animals than the dog), is depilation. If the liver is the seat of 
tubercle, accompanied with enlargement and hardening, it can be 
readily detected by manipulation, yellow mucous membranes, 
livid and yellow appearance of the skin, and ascites of the abdomen. 
In these cases, of course, treatment is hopeless. 
The salivary glands and the pancreas are not prone to tuberculous 
transformations, neither is the brain the frequent seat of the same 
in the lower animals. Solitary cerebral tumours are occasionally 
found in the substance of the brain, and I believe that some of 
the tumours we find in the lateral ventricles are conglomerations 
