Symptoms: Swelling of side of face, and just below the ear, which is very tender. Dogs suffering from this complaint are generally rather feverish. There is a loss of appetite and an excessive flow of saliva.
Treatment: Give a dose of purgative medicine and cover swelling over with a piece of spongiopyline, or a pad of cotton-wool covered over with oil-silk, and apply a bandage or put on a cap. Later, when the swelling has commenced to go down, give the following tonic pills:—
Recipe:
| Reduced Iron, | 6 to 30 grains.[1] |
| Sulphate of Quinine, | 4 to 12 ” |
| Common Mass. sufficient. | |
| Mix. | |
Divide into 12 pills. One to be given twice a day one hour after food.
Muscles (Wasting):
Symptoms: There may be general wasting of all the muscles of the body, the result of some long illness, as distemper; or there may be wasting of the muscles of one or more limbs, the result of want of use, as in cases of injury; or some disease of the spinal cord, causing paralysis, and occasionally wasting of the muscles of one or both sides of the head and face, the result of some injury to the head.
Treatment: When the result of illness, no special treatment is required beyond giving tonics, as cod-liver oil, for when the patient gets about again the muscles will fill up as before. When one or more limbs are affected as the result of disuse from lameness or paralysis, the limbs should be massaged and galvanised. When the head is affected, the case is often very obstinate, and sometimes the muscles never regain their normal size, but the best treatment is massage galvanism, and encourage the dog to gnaw big bones.
Muzzling a Dog:
