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with a troublesome, hacking cough, tenderness to pressure and an 

 increased liability to diseases of the air passages. 



Treatment: — ^A roomy, clean, dry cage should be allowed, care 

 being taken to avoid draughts of cold air, and to secure a soft equable 

 temperature of about 70°. The throat should be well, but gently, 

 rubbed with camphorated oil. Inhalation of eucamphol or com- 

 pound tincture of benzoin in hot water, should be given every two 

 hours. If the cough is troublesome, a few grains of Dover's powder 

 should be given two or three times a day. The diet should be con- 

 fined to warm, nourishing gruels or milk and brandy, sweetened 

 lemon juice or coffee. In cases attended with high fever and bright 

 red nasal membrane, laxatives and diuretics are especially needed. 

 Ten drops of the fluid extract of cascara sagrada should be given at 

 the outset, and five grains of acetate of potassium given twice daily, 

 allowing the animal to drink all the warm water possible. 



Bronchitis. 



This disease is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the 

 bronchial tubes. When the smaller bronchial tubes are involved, 

 the affection is termed capillary bronchitis, and this form is most 

 common in very young, very old or debilitated animals. The disease 

 is exceedingly common among all primates, and especially so in the 

 chimpanzee. 



Causes: — Bronchitis may arise from irritating dust inhalation, 

 exposure to damp and cold and sudden changes of the temperature 

 of a building. 



Symptoms: — Quick wheezing respiration, frequent and pro- 

 longed coughing. The cough at first dry, later becoming moist and 

 thick. The eyes become red and inflamed and there is usually con- 

 siderable sneezing with nasal discharge. The heart beats are greatly 

 increased, and on placing the ear to the animal's chest, a moist rattle 

 is heard. The animal becomes prostrate, and unless speedily re- 

 lieved, quickly succumbs to broncho-pneumonia or asphyxia. 



Treatment: — The patient should be placed in comfortable 

 atmosphere, free from draughts or dampness. Mild cases are relieved 

 by inhalation of a sedative steam arising from a pail or steam evolved 

 from an ordinary human bronchitis kettle. When treating animals 

 which are easily controlled, or confined, little difficulty will be ex- 



