Treatment: Keep patient absolutely quiet, and give a good purge. Apply following lotion constantly on lint:—
Recipe:
| Goulard’s Extract of Lead, | 1 drachm. |
| Laudanum, | 2 drachms. |
| Water to | 6 ounces. |
Or an ice-bag may be applied.
If an abscess forms, it must be freely opened, and afterwards apply hot linseed-meal poultices, dusted over with powdered charcoal.
Perspiration:
Symptoms: A dog does not perspire from the skin when in health, but he occasionally does when suffering from some skin diseases; and puppies in the nest, when ill and not thriving, will become quite wet from perspiration. It is always a bad sign, and shows the dog or puppy is in a very bad state of health.
Treatment: In the case of puppies, give the mother a dose of castor oil, and dust the youngsters all over two or three times a day with finely-powdered boracic acid one part, kaolin eight parts, mixed together. In the case of adult dogs, give daily a sulphur bath, made by dissolving one ounce of sulphurated potash in four gallons of tepid water; after well drying, dust the inside of the thighs, abdomen, armpits, etc., with the powder recommended for puppies. For medicine give a course of arsenic, as from one[1] to eight drops of Fowler’s solution in water after food.
Phimosis:
Symptoms: The opening of the sheaf or prepuce is so small that the male organ cannot pass through.