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wiry. During simple spasm the voice is natural, rich, 

 sonorous, and almost musical ; hut in inflammation it is 

 short, harsh, high, and broken, the exclamations not 

 being continuous, but consisting of a series of discon- 

 nected " yaps" 



For the treatment, in the first instance, a turpentine 

 enema will frequently cut short the attack. Should it 

 fail to so, injections of ether and laudanum should suc- 

 ceed, and doses of the mixture should also be given 

 every half hour ; the first three being exhibited at in- 

 tervals only of a quarter of an hour each. The cathar- 

 tic pills should be administered ; and in three hours, if 

 the bowels have not been acted upon, a dose of castor- 

 oil should be resorted to ; but where the cathartic has 

 been responded to, the castor-oil should be delayed for 

 eight or twelve hours. 



When the pain ceases, the ether and laudanum should 

 not be immediately discontinued ; but they may be em- 

 ployed at longer intervals, and gradually reduced in 

 quantity, until the bowels are thoroughly opened, when 

 they may be withheld. Under this treatment, the af- 

 fection is rarely fatal, and never so if taken in time. 

 An injection of ether and laudanum should always be 

 given to any pup that exhibits even the slightest symp- 

 tom of uneasiness. I have never known it to do harm, 

 but I am convinced it has often prevented danger. 



In those cases where purging and other indications 

 denote the coats of the bowels to be already involved, 

 and spasm co-exists with enteritis, ether and laudanum 



