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monia are the best stimulants to use. In addition to a careful 

 attention to diet, cleanlLaess, warmth, and dryness are especially 

 essential to the patient iu this disease. 



SPASM OF THE LARYNX. 

 Spasm of the Larynx is altogether a secondary a,ffection ; 

 and may, with every propriety, be regarded as one of those 

 sequences of a dangerous character which are so greatly to be 

 dreaded, and especially to be guarded against during the exist- 

 ence of Laryngitis or Strangles. 



Symptoms. — The symptoms of Laryngeal Spasm are of so 

 evident a nature as to declare the true character of the affection 

 in the most decisive manner. Sometimes the Spasm manifests 

 itself iu a moment, and that too with terrible severity. The 

 animal gasps for breath ; the eyeballs protrude ; the eyes present 

 a v,TJd, staring appearance; the nostrils are dilated to their 

 utmost extent; the nose is protruded; the flanks heave with 

 excessive violence ; and, during the act of inspiration, a sound 

 is heard which wiU vary in character and intensity according 

 to the vigour of the Spasm. Sometimes this sound will be 

 loud and shrill; sometimes a kind of scream; at other times 

 like a loud twang from a trumpet, or it will be rasping, or 

 snoring, or like that elicited from sawing wood. 



As the disease proceeds, the general symptoms become more 

 violent; the mucous membranes of the mouth and nostrUs 

 assume a purple colour ; the animal becomes partly unconscious ; 

 he rushes wildly from place to place, as though seeking for aid ; 

 the body becomes sufiused with a steaming perspiration ; until 

 at last the spasm is either spontaneously relieved (which is very 

 rarely the case), or the animal falls heavily to the ground, strug- 

 gles a few moments, and dies completely asphyxiated. 



