Warts
These are often unpleasant things to have to do with. A Newfoundland dog had the whole of the inside of his mouth lined with warts. I applied the following caustic: —
Hyd. suc-corrosivi
[Symbol: ounce]
j.
,
acidi mur.
[Symbol: ounce],
alcoholis
[Symbol: ounce]
iiij
.,
aquæ
[Symbol: ounce]
ij
. The warts were touched twice every day, and in less than a fortnight they had all disappeared.
Another dog had its mouth filled with warts, and the above solution was applied. In four days considerable salivation came on, and lasted a week, but at the expiration of that time the warts had vanished. The owner of the dog had applied the solution with the tip of her finger; she experienced some salivation, which she attributed to this cause.
The skin of the dog, from the feebleness of its perspiratory functions, is little sensible to the influence of diaphoretics: therefore we trust so much to external applications for the cure of diseases of the skin of that animal.
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