HYGIENIC TREATMENT T61 
which the front legs should be passed, the sides of the 
material being brought up over the back and fastened 
with safety-pins; the front edges of the material should 
be joined with safety-pins, or stitched together over the 
- breast, due care being taken to provide that it shall not 
be tight or tend to impede deglutition or respiration. 
. (See Fig. 18.) 
Where counter-irritants have been applied to the chest 
for the relief of pulmonary symptoms, such a jacket will 
become essential, and, for the same purpose, Thermogene 
Fic. 19.— INHALATION OF STEAM. 
Arrangement of apparatus. 
wool can usefully be interposed between the chest walls 
and the clothing. a 
Steam. Kettle.—lf dyspnoea is marked, much relief can 
be afforded by the use of a steam kettle arranged in such 
a manner that its vapour will arise in the vicinity of the 
dog’s head. Toa pint of water, a few drops of eucalyp- 
tus oil, tincture of benzoin, Sanitas, Jeyes’ Fluid, or oil 
of turpentine, may be added, which, when the water boils, 
will charge the atmosphere with a pleasant. antiseptic 
inhalation having decided curative properties in--the 
catarrhal conditions of the respiratory organs. 
Removal of Discharges.—Great attention must- be paid 
to the cleansing away of all discharges, particularly from 
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