Between the toes, around the eyelids, margins of the ears, are common situations for eczema to make its appearance. _Treatment._--This must be both local, _i.e._, applied to the diseased part or parts, and general, _i.e._, directed towards improving the constitution. Plenty of exercise and a reasonable supply of good, sound, boiled flesh, mixed with bread, night and morning, will do much towards a cure. Give a bath of sulphurated potash (2 ounces of sulphate of potash to 6 gallons of water) weekly, dry thoroughly and then dress the parts with sulphur ointment, or boracic acid ointment. If the disease has spread more, or less, over the whole skin, dress with the following liniment. Rx Paraffin oil 4 ounces Sulphur flowers 4 ounces Oil of tar 2 ounces Olive oil 30 ounces Mix. Wash off in six days' time, and repeat once every ten days until cured. _N.B._--A cheap oil (rape, colza, etc.), can be substituted for the olive oil, though these are all distinctly inferior for the purpose. In addition to the treatment, give the dog a 5-grain blue pill, say once every three or four weeks, and have the following mixture compounded. Rx Liquid extract of sacred bark 2 drachms Acetate of potash 1 drachm Ammoniated citrate of iron 1 drachm Tincture of orange 1 ounce Fowler's Solution of Arsenic 80 drops Water to 8 ounces Directions: Give one tablespoonful night and morning before food. Several weeks' or months' treatment will be required ere a complete cure can be anticipated. Mild cases of eczema are not difficult to bring under control, but those of long-standing demand perseverance. If skin scaly, use tar ointment daily. BOILS A common situation for these to make their appearance is upon or between the toes. Frequently they are very troublesome, appearing and reappearing. The best treatment is to poultice freely with hot linseed meal, and if at all tardy in healing, paint with Friar's Balsam. Keep feet very clean, soaking in hot water at each time of removal of poultice. Give a dose of Epsom salts, and don't allow dog to run about without a leather boot for a few days, or at anyrate until the sores have become perfectly healed. A little powdered boracic acid powder can be dusted upon the sore places. For drawing sores turpentine ointment is very useful. HERPES By this term we mean an eruption of vesicles or small blisters in groups upon an inflamed skin. These blisters are larger than those of eczema. It is not uncommon to see them around the lips during an attack of distemper, causing the mouth to become extremely sore and painful. In ringworm, the patch is of a kindred nature, though contagious. NETTLE-RASH