370 KENNEL DISEASES. 
The discharge from the nose and eyes should never be allowed to accu- 
mulate, and several times each day all traces of it should be removed by the 
gentle use of a soft sponge and warm water, in each cupful of which has been 
dissolved a heaping teaspoonful of powdered borax. After that has been done 
the following solution should be dropped onto the eyeballs, also applied freely 
to the nose and adjacent parts: 
Borax, forty grains ; camphor water, four ounces. 
If the nose seems swollen and the passage through it not quite free and 
open, it should be anointed with vaselin, in each ounce of which has been 
incorporated three grains of menthol. By means of a bit of cotton on the end 
of a wooden toothpick, a little of it may be carried a short distance within the 
nostrils. Care must be used lest it get into the eyes. 
A measure of treatment which tends to lessen materially the catarrhal 
trouble in the head and discomfort occasioned thereby, is spraying the nos- 
trils every two or three hours with a twenty-five per cent solution of listerin. 
This allays the irritation, favors easy discharge from the nose, also greatly 
lessens the amount of discharge, which under its use looses its thick, purulent 
and offensive character and becomes thin and watery. 
Before spraying, the patient’s eyes should be bandaged with a thick cloth 
to protect them from the medicine. His head should then be firmly held, 
with his nose elevated. 
In the absence of a better sprayer, an atomizer designed for perfumes 
might do. 
In addition to this .ocal treatment it will be advisable during the first few 
days of an attack to syringe the nose with a solution of the peroxide of 
_ hydrogen. 
A glass syringe capable of holding several tablespoonfuls will answer the 
purpose. A piece of very small rubber tubing, two or three inches in length 
should be drawn onto the end. An inch or more of this being inserted into 
the nostrils, the syringing will be quite effectual. 
The hydrogen should be in solution as follows: 
Peroxide of hydrogen, one ounce; bicarbonate of sodium, one-half a 
drachm ; water, four ounces. 
The head of the dog being firmly held by an assistant, and the rubber tip 
introduced into a nostril, the contents of the syringe should be thrown in with 
some force. Then at once the dog’s head should be released, that he may 
eject the solution and free the passage. When he has done so effectually, and 
is fairly quiet again, the other nostril should be duly treated. 
This application should be made twice daily until the nasal discharge has 
lost its purulent character and become thin and watery; after which there will 
not likely be any real necessity for its use, yet no harm can be done if it is 
repeated two or three times on as many successive days. 
