Treatment: Nothing but a surgical operation is of any use, which consists in enlarging the opening, and sewing the skin to the mucus membrane.
Phthisis:
Symptoms: Chronic hacking cough; the temperature is always a degree or two above normal; loss of condition; the muscles of the neck, body, and limbs become wasted. If the expectorations are examined by the microscope, the tubercle bacilli will be found.
Treatment: Generally incurable; but making the dog live out of doors, and giving plenty of cod-liver oil, with a generous diet of raw meat, sometimes does good.
It is a mistake to keep a dog suffering from consumption amongst people, as the danger of infection is too great a risk.
Old English Sheep Dog, Champion Ragged Man.
The property of Mr. Aubrey Hopwood, 36 Sackville Street, W.
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Piles (External):
Symptoms: Dogs do not suffer from internal piles, but old dogs occasionally have a form of external piles; then the anus becomes red, inflamed, and swollen; small red pimples form about the part, inducing a good deal of irritation, and causing the dog to drag the hind parts along the ground.