Large, unhealthy-looking sores frequently form on the hips, points of the buttocks, shoulders and other parts of dogs which have suffered from severe illness. Success in treatment depends upon protecting the parts affected from further injury. First clean the parts with a warm, saturated solution of boracic acid, then dry carefully with soft linen rags and dust with powdered boracic acid and iodoform in equal parts; encircle the injured parts with a ring of felt, kept in position with adhesive tape.