Some months ago a party wrote me: "My dog has wrenched his back (by jumping off a high table), about six inches from his tail, and it hurts him to walk up the steps. He gives sharp cries of pain quite often and holds his hindquarters on a droop."

I advised as follows, and the dog was cured: "Take three ordinary coffee cups of water, add one coffee cup each of strong vinegar and salt. Heat to as hot as you can just stand your hand in, then take red flannel cloth, dip in this, wring out and lay over parts, repeating as cloth gets cold, keeping this up for three hours. As dog gets better and pain leaves, then use a soap liniment or a chloroform liniment that your druggist can furnish."