_Treatment_: It is a most unsatisfactory disease to treat, for often after months of hard work the dog is no better, but on the contrary is much worse, the disease having progressed in spite of everything. If the patient is not a valuable dog, and the attack a bad one, it is much better to destroy him at once; however, when it is decided to give the dog a chance, treatment should commence by having the dog, if a long-coated one, clipped all over, so that the sores may be got at, and then dress him all over with the following:— _Recipe_: Black Sulphur, 2 ounces. Kerosene, 4 ounces. Olive Oil, 4 ounces. Cocoa-nut Oil, 4 ounces. Castor Oil, 4 ounces. Wright’s Solution of Coal Tar, 1 ounce. Well mix. With this, dress the dog all over once a week, but before each dressing have him thoroughly washed, using Cook’s 3% mercurial soap, and carefully dry before applying the dressing. To the spots apply Naphthol Beta ointment daily. If this does not heal them, then dab on the sores twice a day peroxide of hydrogen (20 volumes). For a change, the sores may be dressed with the following:— _Recipe_: Oil of Cade, } Equal parts mixed together. Methylated Spirits, } Green Soft Soap, } In treating follicular mange a change of dressing to the sores is necessary. During the treatment an occasional course of arsenic often does good; give from one[1] to five drops of liquor arsenicalis in water after food; gradually increase the dose to from two[1] to ten drops. Continue the medicine for about three weeks at a time, and after a week’s interval give it again as before. =Marasmus=: _Symptoms_: Loss of condition, colour, flesh, and strength. _Treatment_: A raw meat diet with tonics, or the following pills:— _Recipe_: Reduced Iron, 12 to 48 grains.[1] Arsenic, ⅟₁₂th to ¼th ” Extract Gentian, 6 to 20 ” Mix. Divide into 12 pills. One twice a day after food. Cod-liver oil is also advised after food, from half a teaspoonful[1] to a tablespoonful twice a day. =Mastitis (Inflammation of Breast)=: _Symptoms_: This complaint is not uncommon in bitches when nursing puppies. One or more of the milk-glands may be affected. The breast is swollen, red, and very tender. The bitch is off her feed, and there is often a good deal of fever. An abscess generally forms, which should be lanced as soon as it becomes soft and points. _Treatment_: Hot water fomentations are the best, as it is difficult to apply poultices when a bitch is nursing puppies. If the temperature is very high, from two[1] to ten grains of salicylate of soda may be given three or four times a day. After the abscess has been opened, or has broken, tonics as from a quarter of a grain[1] to one grain of sulphate of quinine should be given three times a day.