SPECIFIC CATARRHAL DISEASE, OR DISTEMPER. 121 



Or, 



Spirit of nitrous tetlier half an ounce 



Camphor lialf a drachm 



Aromatic confection 2 drachms 



Chamomile infusion 4 ounces 



Powdered catechu 2 drachms 



Give of either, one, two, three, or four table-spoonfuls, according 

 to the size of the dog-, every three or four hours : and if the 

 diarrhoea should be thought any bar to the administration, in- 

 crease the opiate to forty drops with each dose, but continue the 

 medicine, if possible, alone ; if not, alternate it with the remedies 

 detailed under DiarrhQea^ Class III. If, however, every remedy 

 only increases the alvine flux, then all but astringents must be 

 discontinued ; for every other means must give place to attempts 

 at restraining this most fatal state, even to the continuance of the 

 antiseptic and astringent plans together, if they be found wholly 

 incompatible with the state of the bowels. 



Cleanliness is very desirable in every stage of distemper, but 

 in the putrid type it is essentially necessary, as well to the reco- 

 very as to the comfort of the animal : the free access of pure air 

 is also indispensable, and the removal of every thing Ukely to har- 

 bour putrid exhalations is highly proper : the litter should be con- 

 stantly changed, or, if any other bedding be used, it should be 

 washed and dried, or replaced by other. The apartment, kennel, 

 &c., should be cleansed of the putrid effluvia by the use of either 

 the chloride of soda or lime, according to the directions accom- 

 panying those valuable disinfectants ; and which, either of them, 

 particularly the latter, is able to do to admiration : the former is 

 also even more useful in another point of view. I have noticed 

 the phagedenic ulcers which are apt to break out over the face, 

 nose, mouth, &c., and of the malignant tumours which form in 

 the submaxillary glands, and sometimes in the parotid also; or, in 

 other words, that break out at the side of the head, and in the 

 angle of the jaws. These take on often a gangrenous appearance. 



