CHAPTER I. 

 Diseases of the Head and Chest 



SWELLING IN THE THROAT. 



Symptoms. — This is a common complaint, and consists 

 of an enlargement of the glands of the throat. It is 

 a disease to which the smaller breeds of dogs are 

 more particularly subject, and comparatively of rare 

 occurrence with the larger kinds. Young dogs are 

 most liable to it ; and if not attended to early, it may 

 become a fixed swelling, not reducible at any after 

 period. It produces a stiffness of the neck ; and if 

 swelling is on one side, the animal sometimes has his 

 head inclining to the opposite side. There is seldom 

 much pain, nor does it often terminate fatally. It, 

 however, occasions pain if pressed upon. 



Remedies. — The hair should be clipped off the 

 swelling, and the part well rubbed with the following 

 ointment : — 



Calomel . . . . i drachm, 

 White cerate ... J ounce. 



This to be repeated daily, until a cure is effected ; but 

 if no diminution is visible in a week, add half-an-ounce 

 of blistering-ointment to the above proportions. Let 

 the animal have a quarter of an ounce of nitre, in his 

 drink, daily. 



If the swelling is noticed early, fomentations will 



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