198 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 





 may be joined. If the bowels are costive, injections of 



the sulphate of magnesia, or small doses of the salt, may 

 be employed, while the food should be nourishing. Sul- 

 phuric acid and the sulphates, with generous diet, will 

 constitute the treatment ; and if the case be not too far 

 advanced, these will ultimately restore the strength. 



BRONCHOCELE. 



THIS disease is usually seen in greatest severity in 

 pups. It consists in an enlargement of the thyroid body, 

 which increases so much as to destroy the life. In old 

 dogs it is commonly stationary, or of a fixed size. Spa- 

 niels and terriers are much exposed to it ; and of the 

 last-mentioned breed, probably bull-terriers are, of all 

 animals, the most liable to be attacked. 



In pups, the thyroid body greatly and quickly en- 

 larges, so as to cut short the life by when the sixth week 

 is attained. The disease of itself, in old dogs, is rather 

 annoying than fatal ; but the manner in which it destroys 

 the animal when very young, is by impeding the circu- 

 lation and respiration. The enlarged thyroid body presses 

 upon the trachea and jugular veins. The blood which 

 should return from the brain and head is thereby pre- 

 vented descending, and hindered from reaching the heart 

 in a full current. The vessels enlarge so as to become 

 obvious to the most indifferent observer. The veins not 

 only look swelled, but they feel turgid, and cannot be 



