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R. H. HARRISON. 
CANINE PRACTICE, WITH NOTES ON CASES. 
By Dr. R. H Harrison, Atchison, Kansas, 
A Paper read before the Missouri Valley Veterinary Medical Association. 
At the present time, when the priee of horses is so low that 
an owner hesitates to call a veterinarian, on account of the ex¬ 
pense of treatment, a surgeon can aid his reputation and pocket 
by skill in his treatment of dogs, and their owners. Very often 
a very profitable practice can be built up by a surgeon’s proper 
treatment of the owners of dogs. Being a lover and owner of 
dogs myself, I can appreciate a little sympathy for them in some 
one else, and a surgeon can always gain friends, and legitimate 
and profitable advertising by his judicious sympathy with the 
owner and friend of his patient. 
The question of expense does not enter so much in canine 
practice as in equine, for it is not a question always of their pe¬ 
cuniary value as it is that they are loved. 
In this paper I present quite a number of rather unusual 
cases met with in my practice. 
Case No. i .—Vesical calculus in a black French poodle, 
eight years old, animal belonging to a traveling showman. 
Being of a cleanly habit, had been treated by a veterinarian in 
the East for retention of urine, caused by a trip from the Pacific 
Coast to the East. The treatment rendered was the passing of 
a catheter, which, from the owner’s statement was very difficult, 
and in withdrawing the instrument, the end beyond the open¬ 
ing was broken off. The owner was assured that the piece of 
catheter would be absorbed, or decomposed by the urine, and 
passed away. For a year afterwards the animal seemed appar¬ 
ently normal, when suddenly mnch pain was manifested by cries 
when micturating, which also interfered with the animal in 
performing his tricks. Urine would be passed a few drops at a 
time. When brought to me, the patient w^as in great distress, 
exhibiting intense pain, constant tenesmus and great uneasiness. 
Manipulation over the abdomen showed a large, well defined 
tumor, very hard to the touch, quite tender to pressure. Exam- 
