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well before giving, as these ingredients have a tendency to separate. It 

 should be placed well back on the tongue and should be swallowed gradually. 

 Is is sometimes advisable to blister the throat and front of the chest, 

 and in most cases a good rubbing with a strong stimulative liniment will 

 be of service. Vinegar and mustard may be used, or the following mixed: 



Spirits of turpentine 1 y 2 ounce 



Oil of origanum 1 ounce 



Tincture of cantharides \' 2 ounce 



Spirit of hartshorn 1 ounce 



Rape oil 2 ounces 



Bronchitis often assumes a chronic form, especially in old dogs, when 

 the cough is husky and constant, retching and discharge of phlegm, the 

 breathing short and thick, and the dog is incapable of much exertion. 

 Chronic cases are incurable, but alleviation can be given when it is unusually 

 bad by giving a desertspoonful to a tablespoonful, according to size of dog, 

 of equal parts of oxymel of squills and thick mucilage of acacia several 

 times a day. 



Another veterinarian advises as follows: 



"This trouble is of frequent occurrence and is due to an inflammation 

 of the air passage leading down into the body of the lung, and may be the 

 result of a cold or chill or the breathing of smoke or novious vapors. The 

 symptoms are more or less difficulty in breathing, severe and constant 

 coughing and the accumulation of phlegm in the windpipe. In bad cases 

 the patient will not lie down, but sits with the forelegs braced and the 

 chest expanded. In treating place in a room comfortably warm without 

 being overheated, and moisten the air by keeping a kettle going. If the 

 throat is so full of phlegm that breathing is difficult give an emetic of the 

 wine of ipecac in doses of a half to two teaspoonfuls, repeated in one 

 hour, if necessary. After the stomach is erupted and the patient has quieted 

 use the following mixture: Paragoric six drams, Hoffman's spirits two 

 drams, ipecacuanha wine one dram, syrum of squills one ounce, water to 

 make three ounces. The dose is a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful every 

 four or six hours. Keep the bowels open by occasional doses of aperient 

 medicine and repeat the emetic if the breathing has not improved in forty- 

 eight hours, and after the acute stage of the disease has passed and the 

 cough is better give cod liver oil emulsion. Feed on milk,, meat broths and 

 soup during the early stages of the disease, and as the severe symptoms 

 abate meat may be given. 



Bronchitis (Chronic Husk) This condition is the result of a more 



or less chronic thickening of the membranes lining the air passages, so that 

 the dog is in apparent good health with the exception of a hard, dry, husky 

 cough that is brought on by any excitement or exertion, and is usually 

 worse in the morning and at night. These attacks of coughing end usually 



