BRONCHITIS IN THE DOG. 



Causes, damp kennels, cold and damp aflei hunting, pampering and ex- 

 posure, distemper. Symptoms, fever, cough hard, later soft, discharge wa- 

 tery, glairy, purulent. In capillary bronchitis cough more paroxysmal, 

 painful and attended with vomiting. Disturbance of breathing, pulse, tem- 

 perature. Fatality in different breeds. Treatment, laxative, expectorants, 

 diuretics, heart tonic, calmative, water vapor, chest jacket, stimulant ex- 

 pectorants, stimulants, tonics. Diet. 



This is conitnon and severe. Hotinds kept in damp kennels, 

 much exposed to cold and damp after being heated in hunt- 

 ing, or subjected to freqtient and sudden alternations of tem- 

 perature are specially liable. Pampered pets kept in warm 

 rooms, overfed and having little open air exercise, are equally- 

 subject to its attacks. It is an usual form in which distemper is 

 manifested. 



Symptoms. There is roughness of the coat or shivering and a 

 small, hard cough often repeated. If confined to the bronchi the 

 cough soon becomes loose, a free discharge sets in, and with care 

 recovery may be secured in five or six days. 



If the smaller bronchial tubes are involved the symptoms are 

 more intense and persistent. The temperature may reach 104° 

 or 105°. To the same early symptoms succeed, a painful cough 

 occurring in paroxysms and sometimes followed by vomiting of a 

 glairy mucus. There is running from the eyes and nose, and 

 reddening of thin membranes. The creature .stands with his 

 elbows turned out, his flanks heaving and his heart beating rap- 

 idly and tumultuously. In the worst cases when the inflamma- 

 tion has been propagated to the smallest bronchial tubes consti- 

 tuting capillary bronchitis, these symptoms are seen in their most 

 aggravated type and the subject often dies of suffocation, or by 

 implication of the lung tissue. Percussion and auscultation are 

 even more applicable than in the larger animals, showing the 

 clear resonance, of the lung tissue, the tubal murmur in the early 

 stages and the mucous rattle in the later ones. In the capillary 

 form a distinct crepitation is heard like that of pneumonia. 

 Bronchitis proves most fatal to the higher bred dogs, such as King 

 Charles spaniels, Italian greyhounds, and English terriers, and 



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