[ American Turf Registry and Sporting Magazine ]
This sporting monthly, with a primary emphasis on horse racing, was edited by J. S. Skinner and published (in Baltimore, Maryland) from 1829 to 1844.
The November, 1841, issue carried an article entitle "Diseases of Dogs" (one intallment in a series of articles on this subject). The article has no specified author but does include the byline "Written for the American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine." Newfoundlands are mentioned in the discussion of "ear canker," in a context similar to that found in other veterinary writings in the 19th Century.
Internal canker has also another predisposing cause, which is a frequent access of water to the cavity of the ears; thus poodles, water spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs, are particularly liable to it. The length of hair round the head of these dogs, by heating and retaining moisture within their ears, encourages a flow of hu mours, as they are termed, to them. That taking the water has this tendency is proved by the fact that water-dogs are more liable to it than any others, although they may be in full exercise, and neither over fed or too fat, and that their peculiar liability to it arises from this cause, is further proved by the cessation of the discharge in many cases when they are prevented from having access to the water. (624)