1 74 Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. 



signs are likely to be mistaken for choking, or the fixing 

 of a bone between the molars, a special examination of 

 the mouth should always be made ; or the disease may 

 be confounded with " dumb rabies " in which the mouth 

 cannot remain closed. 



Treatment. — Wash or gargle the mouth frequently with 

 astringent lotion of tannic acid, alum, boracici acid, &c., 

 or use one of the electuaries. Relieve the tumefaction 

 of the throat by means of hot fomentations. Spongio 

 piline as described under Poultices. Do not attempt to 

 give food or medicine by the mouth, but support the 

 system by injections of beef tea or mutton broth free from 

 fat, in which half a drachm or more of nitrous ether may 

 be given. With diminution of the sore throat, appetite 

 will return, when food may be given by the mouth in 

 small portions, carefully prepared, until the symptoms 

 have disappeared. In some severe cases the attendant 

 swelling necessitates the opening of the windpipe to 

 admit of respiration; blisters may also be required 

 to hasten suppuration in the glands, or to reduce ihe 

 irritation in the throat, the use of \/hich must be 

 adopted only after careful consideration of the existing 

 conditions. 



Aphonia, or Loss of the Voice, is a state in which the 

 bark is reduced to a rough and husky kind of sound, 

 resembUng a forcible expiration. The vocal chords being 

 inflamed and relaxed from incessant barking, the sudden 

 shocks from the collar in running violently to the end of 

 the chain also bruise the larynx, which aggravates the 

 complaint. Aphonia arises in conjunction with laryngitis, 

 which see. 



Snoring proceeds from a relaxed state of the laryngeal' 

 or throat apparatus, as induced by cold in which the 

 vocal chords and velum palati are involved. It is removed 

 by the remedies prescribed for laryngitis ; but when it 

 occurs in pet dogs highly fed and pampered, taking 'itile 

 or no exercise, the treatment must consist of a reduced 

 diet, regular exertion, gentle cathartics, and subsequently 

 tonics. 



Inflammation of the Organs of Respiration con- 



