200 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



drops of the tincture of Indian tobacco may be adminis- 

 tered. If tbe throat is very sore, the mouth may be held 

 open, and ten grains of powdered alum mixed with four 

 times its weight of fine sugar may be blown into it, or in 

 severe instances, the fauces may be mopped out by 

 means of a piece of soft sponge tied to the end of a 

 probe, and saturated with a solution containing six 

 grains of nitrate of silver dissolved in an ounce of water. 



Ulceration of the interior of the larynx is to be dreaded 

 if the symptoms do not yield. This will be denoted by 

 the cough becoming weaker, less loud, more short, and 

 also more frequent. Prior to it there are always inter- 

 vals during which the animal enjoys repose ; but after 

 ulceration of the larynx is established every inhalation 

 provokes the irritability of the organ. With it the con- 

 stitutional symptoms become more serious, and little can 

 then by medicine be accomplished ; for the passage of 

 the air which is necessary to life causes the affection we 

 desire to cure to spread. Tracheotomy might be per- 

 formed, though the dog is so very expert with its claws, 

 and any tape around the neck would be probably so 

 injurious, that hitherto I have not ventured to hazard the 

 experiment. Humanity has, in such cases, forced me to 

 recommend the destruction of the life which I enter- 

 tained no hope of comforting. 



Cough is much more frequently a symptom than a 

 disease. It, in fat dogs, usually proceeds from disordered 

 digestion; and then to remove it the cause must be 

 attacked. It accompanies worms ; and if these are 



