126 DISEASES 



first state is to relieve the pain and suffering and if possible, to check the 

 progress of the disease. This is best accomplished by giving a dose of 

 Dover's powder, varying in size from five to thirty grains, depending upon 

 the size of the dog. This will relieve the pain, quiet the patient and thus 

 limit the constitutional disturbance. The chest jacket, described in the 

 treatment of pneumonia, should then be applied, as it is a great protec- 

 tion. 



If a dose or two of Dover's powder early in the disease, does not check 

 its course, the following prescription may be used: 



Morphine Sulphates ■ two grains 



Tr. Aconite Rad twenty drops 



Aquae three oz. 



Ft. Mist Sig. 



Dose is one teaspoonful, every four hours, until the animal is quiet 

 and inclined to sleep. 



If the fluid within the chest cavity docs not disappear within a week, 

 there is danger of its becoming purulent. A veterinary surgeon or physi- 

 cian should be called in to tap the chest, low down and far back and draw 

 part of the fluid with an asperating needle or a trochar and canula. 



If the bowels do not move freely, they can be opened and kept so by 

 the syrup of buckthorn in tablespoc-nful doses, repeated as often as may 

 be necessary. If the animal is very weak, or the general strength seems 

 to be impaired by the use of these laxatives, they should be dispensed with. 



Keep up the animal's strength by feeding raw, lean beef, chopped fine, 

 raw eggs, milk punch, mutton broths and anything he will eat of a nour- 

 ishing nature. After the fever abates and the crisis has passed, the emul- 

 sion of cod liver oil in tablespoon ful doses should be given three or four 

 times a day. A good tonic pill is prepared as follows: / 



Sulphate of Quinine 12 grains 



Sulphate of Iron 12 grains 



Extract of Gentian 12 grains 



Powdered Ginger 12 grains 



Diastase 3 grains 



Pepsin 2 4 grains 



Make into twelve pills and give one night and morning. 



Pneumonia — See Lungs, Inflammation of. An inflammation of the 

 substance of the lungs is generally the result of exposure to cold and damp. 

 The first stage of the disease is announced with shiverings, followed by 

 fever. Sometimes, in the worst cases, it is accompanied by pleurisy, which 

 is inflammation of what is called the lung-case, and, in such instances, it 

 usually proves fatal. In fact, whether the pneumonia is or is hot accom- 

 panied by pleurisy there is always some risk of a fatal termination. 



Pneumonia admits of no delay in management, but must be treated 

 al once i> v giving a solution of acetate of ammonia to reduce the fever-— 



