l8 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



attended with benefit. Purgatives should on no account be 

 resorted to. Impaction of faeces can best be removed by 

 means of plain enemas. 



The diet must be nourishing and easy of digestion, as 

 broth, beef-tea, gruel, or milk. For chest complications, 

 refer to treatment under their respective heads. 



LARYNGITIS. 



Inflammation of the larynx, the upper or vocal part of 

 the windpipe, is an affection very commonly met with in 

 canine practice. Highly pampered dogs, particularly pugs 

 and yard dogs with deficient shelter, are most liable to 

 laryngitis. I have also observed what may be designated 

 a temporary or simple form of it, in sheep-dogs when 

 gathering flocks together, and the same is not uncommon 

 at and after dog-shows, due to incessant barking. 



Predisposing Causes. — Frequent and long-continued bark- 

 ing ; a previous attack of the same disease. 



Exciting Causes. — Exposure to wet and cold, the presence 

 of foreign matter, injuries, irritating inhalations, or exten- 

 sion of neighbouring inflammation. 



Symptoms. — Hoarseness, cough easilyinduced by external 

 pressure, increased respiration and salivary secretion, frothy 

 discharge from the nostrils, difificulty in < swallowing, and 

 pyrexia ; pulse small, hard, and frequent. These sym- 

 ptoms, if not checked, rapidly increase, and the patient dies 

 from suffocation. 



Treatment* — Of course removal of the cause is primarily 



* (CEsterreuhische Vierteljahresschrift, 1873.) Harms injected o'o; 

 grammes of morphine hydrochlorate, in solution, beneath the skin o) 

 a dog which had been suffering from a dry laryngeal cough for four 

 weeks. For two hours after the injection, the animal exhibited every 

 symptom of complete narcotism, with total loss of consciousness and 

 sensibility. In the course of eight hours it manifested sensibilitj 



