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1 74 [Lungs 



each expiration the dog may give a suppressed 

 grunt. The chest is tender on pressure. If 

 the ear is put to the chest, crepitation will be 

 detected ; and as the disease advances, the 

 parts of the lungs affected become quite dull, 

 and there are no sounds to be heard except 

 the air passing in and out of the large tubes. 

 At the commencement of the attack, the dog 

 may have a husky cough, but it generally 

 stops after a day or so, to commence again 

 later. The dog is generally off his food, and 

 the eyes are congested. 



Treatment: Place the dog in a jacket lined 

 with thermogen wool, or apply hot linseed-meal 

 poultices right round chest. If no better on 

 second day, apply a blister to front of chest ; 

 the liquor epipasticus is as good as anything. 

 The hair must first be cut off closely over the 

 part, and the blister rubbed into the skin for 

 five minutes. If the skin is not blistered 

 the next day, rub a little red blister ointment 

 into the place. Care must be taken that the 

 dog is not allowed to lick the blisters, as they 

 are poisonous. For medicine give from one 1 to 

 ten grains of phenacetin every six hours to 

 reduce the temperature, but it must not be 

 continued for long ; brandy may also be given 

 in small quantities often. If the dog becomes 

 very weak and the pulse feeble, give every four 

 or six hours from two x to ten drops of Tincture 

 Digitalis, with from one x to five drops of Tincture 

 Nux Vomica, in water. In bad cases the inhala- 

 1 According to the size of the dog. See p. 86. 



