^0^ DISEASES OF DOGS.— THE LUNGS 



CHAP. III. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



This is not an uncommon disease among dogs. 

 The symptoms by which it is known are, the 

 animal appears in great distress, with his head 

 raised, and panting for his breath, expressing 

 great difficulty of breathing ; there is also, for the 

 most part, a slight cough attending the complaint. 



Inflammation of the lungs generally arises from 

 dogs going into rivers or ponds in the winter sea- 

 son, or being thoughtlessly plunged into the same 

 when they are heated and much fatigued ; sudden 

 and great changes of temperature, from heat to 

 cold, and especially after rough dogs have been 

 clipped in the winter season, occasionally produce 

 it. This disease frequently proves fatal from the 

 inflammation terminating in an effusion of a watery 

 serous fluid into the cavity, or substance of the 

 lungs, and thereby causing suffocation. 



The means of checking inflammation of the 

 lungs, and preventing, if possible, a fatal termi- 

 nation, is, first, to bleed the animal as soon as ever 



