Dog Boils

Information on dog boils and treatment at the vet. Dog boils the term, being in common use, is well understood. Boils are not very common on the dog.

Dog Boils

Dog boils the term, being in common use, is well understood. Boils are not very common on the dog; when they appear a poultice of some kind should, if practicable, be kept constantly applied, in order to bring the boil quickly to a head, when it should be opened with a lancet, the matter well squeezed out of it, the part well washed with tepid water, and then dressed with the following ointment: Turner's Cerate (Ceratum calamin), loz.; precipitated chalk and glycerine, and carbolic acid, each 2dr.; mixed. If bicarbonate of soda dose, ten grains for a 301b. Dog be given three times a day it will check the tendency to form boils. Smaller toy dogs use five-grain doses, large breeds fifteen-grain doses.

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