506 -. DOGS USED FOR SPORT. 



quantity of blood it contains. The minute crepitation increases 

 and drowns or supersedes the respiratory murmur, and less symp- 

 toms of pain are noticed, but he prefers to lie flat on his belly to 

 his side, or lies upon one side only, resisting all attempts at being 

 turned over and made to lie on the other. 



In this condition of pneumonia, though the disease may be 

 severe, the inflammation is yet in its primary stage. It often re- 

 mains stationary for a while, then recedes, and terminates by 

 resolution. 



As soon as this stage is diagnosed, administer a full dose of 

 calomel, and eight or ten grains, with half as much quinine, and 

 five grains of jalap. See that this operates thoroughly, following 

 with sweet oil {%d) if necessary. Also administer one or two drops 

 of Norwood's tincture of veratrum viride, one-half drachm to a 

 drachm of nitre, and four or five grains of muriate of ammonia at 

 a dose (49a) in water ; let this be given every hour, watching the 

 pulse and the fever. As soon as the pulse becomes steady even if 

 it be not quite normal, and the fever is allayed, give the doses only 

 once in four hours. This carefully followed, the animal being kept 

 in a moderately warm, dry, and airy room, will usually cut the dis- 

 ease short at once. If it does not, begin the use of carbonate of 

 ammonia in six grain doses, (50) with enemas containing small 

 doses of spirits, six grains every four hours ; use on chest liniment 

 as per prescription No. 52. 



Second Stage. — If the inflammatory engorgement does not cease 

 by resolution, and the symptoms that announce it are exasperated, 

 we must expect the second stage to be established. And we may 

 be certain that it exists when we observe the following phenomena : 

 the breathing becomes more and more constrained, short, acceler- 

 ated ; if the animal cries out with pain, he does it in a short, pant- 

 ing manner, in a series of short, quick yaps between the inspira- 

 tions. The discharges acquire such a degree of viscidity that they 

 can no longer be detached from the stick, even by shaking it vio- 

 lently ; the sound afforded by tapping the diseased side with the 

 fingers is decidedly dull, — no resonance as in health ; at first we 

 hear a little of the minute crepitation, without the admixture of the 

 natural sounds of respiration ; then that little crepitation ceases, and 

 either no sound at all is^ perceived by the ear, or in the part where 



