Peritonitis] 2IO [Perostitis 



When fluid collects, give from half 1 to two 

 grains of iodide of potassium in water three 

 times a day. 



Peritonitis : 



Symptoms : Generally the result of some 

 injury, but may be the result of a chill. The 

 abdomen is hard and very painful to the touch. 

 The breathing is quick, and the dog often utters a 

 grunt with each breath. The pulse is very quick, 

 and the temperature rises to 105 degs. F. or over, 

 and the patient vomits frequently, especially after 

 taking food or even water, and quickly collapses, 

 death often taking place within twenty-four hours 

 of the commencement of the illness. 



Treatment : Apply flannels wrung out in hot 

 poppy-head tea, made by boiling for ten minutes 

 a couple of crushed poppy-heads in a quart of 

 water. Give from five to twenty drops 1 of 

 laudanum every four hours in water ; if the 

 dog cannot retain it, inject under the skin from 

 the twentieth to the eighth of a grain x of acetate 

 of morphia, in a few drops of water, which may 

 be repeated in six hours. 



Give Vichy water and milk in equal parts to 

 drink, and a little Brand's essence occasionally. 



Perostitis (Inflammation of Membrane cover- 

 ing Bone) : 



Symptoms : Generally result of injury. Parts 

 very painful and swollen, the skin covering the 

 inflamed spot discoloured, very often purple. 

 An abscess may form. In these cases there 

 is a good deal of constitutional disturbance, the 

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



