OBSERVATIONS MADE IN CANINE MEDICINE. 24l 
cine, including as it does a host of ailments existing among sev¬ 
eral distinct species of animals, I am not entirely surprised at 
times to find an exceedingly scanty store of really valuable 
literature at our command upon many of the diseased condi¬ 
tions which we are called upon to treat almost daily. Es¬ 
pecially does this comparative dearth become real to us when 
in the interest of special medicine we seek not only the highest, 
but all the possible information we can gain upon some certain 
disease lying more particularly within our special domain. 
The more closely we inquire into the situation the more con¬ 
vinced we necessarily become that it is not entirely due to a 
lack of time by the practitioner to devote to the minutiae of dis¬ 
eased processes observed and recorded, but in part also to a too 
implicit reliance upon the similarity of disease processes as 
manifest in the various animals and an all but universal ten¬ 
dency to slight the study of just those diseases which present 
themselves most frequently in every-day practice. With the 
motive of interesting my professional brother who may be 
thoughtfully inclined, and from long experience competent to 
bring forward matters of great interest to us all in just such 
cases, I will, with the kind permission of your valuable Review, 
confine myself to a few observations upon that disease of ani¬ 
mals known in text-books as “ Conjunctivitis Follicularis,” but 
which, in my opinion, from its localized nature in the great 
majority of cases, might more correctly be designated as “ Con_ 
jiinctivitis Follicularis Locularis.” While this condition is not 
infrequently demonstrated in the horse and other animals, it is 
from its great frequency and common disastrous results in the 
dog, beyond doubt, one of the most important pathological con¬ 
ditions which the veterinarian is called upon to treat. 
Here is an evidently local condition of a mucous membrane, 
apparently benign enough in itself, but which from its very 
location holds in its chain of immediate consequences such dis¬ 
agreeable features as constant and excessive escape of the lach¬ 
rymal secretion over the face with discoloration of the hair, and 
only too often its complete removal and the production of a well 
