. Diseases of the dog and their treatment. e latter. The region is warm, painful to thetouch, and there is more or less fluctuation in the swellings. The animalmakes repeated attempts at defecation and there is every evidence of ten-esmus. The animal is continually licking the anus and pulling and slid-ing the hind ciuarters on the ground. On pressing the swellings betweenthe fingers, the contents of the anal pouches are emptied and are expelled 80 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS from the anus; this is a thick yellowish-brown liquid, often stained withblood, and it has a very fcetid odor.
. Diseases of the dog and their treatment. e latter. The region is warm, painful to thetouch, and there is more or less fluctuation in the swellings. The animalmakes repeated attempts at defecation and there is every evidence of ten-esmus. The animal is continually licking the anus and pulling and slid-ing the hind ciuarters on the ground. On pressing the swellings betweenthe fingers, the contents of the anal pouches are emptied and are expelled 80 DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS from the anus; this is a thick yellowish-brown liquid, often stained withblood, and it has a very fcetid odor. In some instances the swellingbreaks through the skin at the anus, forming an anal fistula. The treatment consists in pressing the engorged glandular tissue be-tween the fingers, either the two fingers externally, or putting the indexfinger into the rectum, and pressing on the pouches. If they cannot beemptied in this manner, they must l)e opened by means of a curved bis-toury, and Gutman injects tincture of iodine into the gland. In rare. Fig. 39.—Pseudo-perineal hernia. instances it is necessary to curette the pouches. The general conditionmay be assisted by laxatives, to assist in easier defecation. Abscess of the Anal Glands.—The anal glands (acinos gland) which aresituated in the sphincter, forming the anus, become inflamed and causea swelling of the entire neighborhood of the anus, causing great inter-ference with defecation. These generally form pus, fluctuate and treatment consists in opening the abscesses and treating themantiseptically. Diverticulum of the Rectum, Pseudo-perineal Hernia.—From the fre-quent accumulation of fa^/cs in the rectum, particularly in old animals,the terminal portion of the floating colon and rectum becomes dilated andforms a sac, and when this diverticulum becomes filled, the neighboringstructures are pushed out, and the condition may be mistaken for perinealhernia (Fig. 39.) It can be differentiated from hernia by the fact th
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