340 DISEASES OF DOGS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. 



The existence of this disease is easily recognized. 

 There is heaving of the chest ; also heat of the mouth 

 and coldness of the feet. The poor dog seats himself 

 upon his haunches; his head is elevated; and his 

 muzzle is protruded ; his breathing is hard and quick, 

 and his countenance is anxious. Yet there he sits, 

 and will sit hour after hour, until he is so completely 

 wearied, that his legs slip from under him. Still he 

 recovers himself; and will not fall until he falls to die. 

 The causes which lead from cold to inflammation of 

 the chest in any other life will produce it in the dog; 

 and he is often predisposed to it by the mistaken nurs- 

 ing which is lavished upon him. 



It is now of all importance that solid food should be 

 withheld, and that even drink and liquid sustenance 

 should be allowed only in moderate quantities. The 

 treatment should commence with three ounce or four 

 ounce draughts of dilute sulphuric ether (see p. 337), 

 a quarter of an hour being permitted to elapse 

 between each. These should be followed by doses of 

 the tincture of aconite and of laudanum, adminis- 

 tered every quarter of an hour. 



RECIPE (No. 13). 

 For Inflamed Lungs. 



Take — Tincture of aconite, from one to four drops; 

 Laudanum, from three to twelve drops : 

 Give in a little syrup. 



