_Treatment_: Apply hot linseed meal poultices, over which should be placed a piece of oil silk to keep in the heat. Repeat poultices often. When swelling quite soft, it should be freely opened, all matter carefully squeezed out, and the cavity washed out with warm boracic lotion. The wound should afterwards be covered over with a few layers of boracic or carbolic gauze, and a bandage applied. Keep wound open two or three days. =Acidy, or Gastric Catarrh=: _Symptoms_: Great thirst, occasional sickness, loss of condition, and the passing of a quantity of clear-coloured urine. _Treatment_: For few days give following mixture:— _Recipe_: Bicarbonate Soda, 1 scruple to 2 drachms. Tincture of Rhubarb, 1 drachm to 4 drachms. Tincture Nux Vomica, 12 minims to 1 drachm. Tincture of Gentian, ½ drachm to 3 drachms. Liquor Bismuth, 2 drachms to 1 ounce. Water to 1½ ounces to 6 ounces. _Dose_: Half a teaspoonful to one tablespoonful[1] three or four times a day one hour before food. _Diet_: Underdone mutton or veal mixed with Spratt’s charcoal biscuits, or stale bread or toast, broken up small, and mixed with a _little_ soup. Avoid fatty or starchy food, and give no sugar. =Acne=: _Symptoms_: Small red spots about the body, head, and limbs. There is not much irritation. More often noticed in the spring and autumn. _Treatment_: Apply following lotion frequently: _Recipe_: Milk of Sulphur, 1 ounce. Glycerium Boracis, 1 ” Liquor Bismuth, 1 ” Water to 8 ounces. Give following powders twice a day with food:— _Recipe_: Reduced Iron, 6 grains to 2 scruples.[1] Bicarbonate Potash, 1 scruple to 2 drachms. Sulphate Magnesia, ½ drachm to 4 ” Mix. Divide into 12 powders—one to be given twice a day with food. _Diet_: Some meat mixed with green food (boiled dandelion leaves), and bread or biscuits. =Albuminaria=: _Symptoms_: Though the dog may be very hungry, and eats well, he loses condition; is generally very thirsty; coat staring; passes water frequently and often; and misbehaves in the house, especially at night. If some of the urine is boiled, a thick white sediment forms, due to coagulation of the albumen. _Treatment_: Limit the quantity of water supplied to dog. Barley water or skimmed milk is better than plain water. Give from one to six grains[1] of ammoniated citrate of iron in water three times a day. In some cases, when symptoms very acute, from the tenth to a grain[1] of powdered opium three times a day is useful. _Diet_: Underdone mutton or veal, with toast or ship biscuits; also boiled fresh fish. =Alopecia=: _Symptoms_: Loss of hair; baldness, the skin being clear and free of irritation. _Treatment: The Lotion_: Tr. Cantharides, 2 drachms. Oil Rosemary, 2 ” Glycerine, 4 ” Water to 8 ounces.