_Treatment_: Give a dose of purgative medicine and cover swelling over with a piece of spongiopyline, or a pad of cotton-wool covered over with oil-silk, and apply a bandage or put on a cap. Later, when the swelling has commenced to go down, give the following tonic pills:— _Recipe_: Reduced Iron, 6 to 30 grains.[1] Sulphate of Quinine, 4 to 12 ” Common Mass. sufficient. Mix. Divide into 12 pills. One to be given twice a day one hour after food. =Muscles (Wasting)=: _Symptoms_: There may be general wasting of all the muscles of the body, the result of some long illness, as distemper; or there may be wasting of the muscles of one or more limbs, the result of want of use, as in cases of injury; or some disease of the spinal cord, causing paralysis, and occasionally wasting of the muscles of one or both sides of the head and face, the result of some injury to the head. _Treatment_: When the result of illness, no special treatment is required beyond giving tonics, as cod-liver oil, for when the patient gets about again the muscles will fill up as before. When one or more limbs are affected as the result of disuse from lameness or paralysis, the limbs should be massaged and galvanised. When the head is affected, the case is often very obstinate, and sometimes the muscles never regain their normal size, but the best treatment is massage galvanism, and encourage the dog to gnaw big bones. =Muzzling a Dog=: [Illustration: A dog muzzled with tape] [Illustration: How to muzzle a bulldog with tape The piece over the forehead is necessary in a bulldog to draw the tape off the short nose to permit easy breathing] The best way to muzzle a dog effectually, so that he cannot bite, is with a piece of strong tape which should be passed over the top of the nose, tied twice under the chin, and then the ends should be carried behind the ears, and again tied tightly. Care must be taken in muzzling a bulldog, or you may interfere with his breathing. Therefore, after tying behind the head, one end of the tape should be passed under the tape which crosses the top of the nose, and this part pulled well up and tied with the other end of the tape over the forehead, so as to remove any pressure from the top of the nose. (_See_ ILLUSTRATION.) =Nails (Cutting)=: This cannot be safely done with scissors, but proper nail-clippers should be used. When the nails are white, it is an easy matter, as the quick can be seen, and the nail may be cut off within the sixteenth of an inch of the quick; but when the nail is black, the quick cannot be seen, then the first one must be cautiously cut a little at a time. The dog will soon wince when the nippers are getting near the sensitive part. When one is done, it is an easy matter doing the rest, as they may be cut off in the same proportion as the first. =Nails (Dew-Claws)=: