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formed. If treated later, the parts should be 

 fomented with hot poppy - head tea, with the 

 addition of boracic acid. This should be made 

 by boiling for ten minutes two crushed poppy- 

 heads in a quart of water, then strain through 

 fine muslin and add a dessertspoonful of 

 boracic acid. Apply with piece of absorbent 

 wool for ten or fifteen minutes as hot as can 

 comfortably be borne. Repeat three or four 

 times a day. 



Suffocation : 



Symptoms : Those of interruption to breathing. 

 May be the result of partial drowning, also from 

 a piece of food or some foreign body being fixed 

 in the fauces or throat. The dog gasps for 

 breath ; the eyes are staring and prominent ; 

 the mouth is generally fixed open, and the 

 tongue is of a dark blue colour. 



Dogs are often suffocated in hot weather 

 whilst travelling, through being shut up in a 

 too small or badly-ventilated box. As a rule, 

 such cases are not found out until the dog 

 arrives at his destination, when the box is 

 opened, and he is found lying dead at the 

 bottom of it. Sometimes the dog is not quite 

 dead, though unconscious. The breathing is 

 very slow and shallow ; the pulse imperceptible. 

 The body is cold, and the tongue a dark blue 

 colour. 



Treatment : At once remove the cause if 

 possible. If some foreign body or food is 

 lodged in the throat, it must be removed — 

 brought up or pushed down. If no forceps 



