THE DOG-—DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 841 
confinement, over-feeding, and want of outdoor exercise. It begins with a 
cough, so slight and irregular in recurrence that it is likely to escape notice, 
but growing more frequent, annoying, dry, harsh, and sounding as if there 
was choking; changes in temperature or food aggravate the cough, so that 
it is nearly incessant, disturbs sleep, and causes nausea and discharges of 
mucus from the respiratory organs; the breathing is disordered, perhaps 
painful; digestion deranged; appetite failing or morbid; breath offensive; 
hair shaggy; skin mangy. The animal may succumb to suffocation or to ex- 
haustion from coughing; may be seized with convulsions; or, more com- 
monly, is attacked by dropsy (to the treatment of which the reader should 
refer in such cases), though suffocation will generally follow this issue of 
asthma. 
TREATMENT.—Treat promptly in the beginning; if not, a cure will 
not be effected, though relief can be given in later stages. Give nux 
vomica every four hours on the days when there is an aggravation of the 
symptonis; at other times, give arsenicum three times daily. For par- 
oxysms of difficult breathing, with inclination to vomit, give ipecac every 
three or four hours during the paroxysms. Provide the best and most 
nutritious food, in small quantities, but often. Secure daily exercise in the 
open air, except in cold, damp or sultry weather. 
BRONCHITIS. 
Bronchitis is an inflammation, acute or chronic, of the mucous mem- 
brane of the lungs, caused by sudden changes in temperature, draughts of 
air in the lodgings, or standing in the cold when heated. Its first symptoms 
resemble those of cold, namely, shivering and short, hard cough; later, a con- 
stant, distressing cough, dry at first, then with sticky mucus; symptoms of 
fever; quickened pulse and breathing; dullness; failing appetite; anxious 
look in the face; nose hot and dry at the commencement, but moist when 
inflammation subsides. In chronic cases, there is a cough during the winter, 
coming on after changes in the weather, and attended with short breath and 
wheezing. 
TREATMENT.—The appropriate remedies can be readily selected from 
those prescribed for Bronchitis in the Horse. During treatment keep the 
dog in the house, in a warm temperature. Milk and bread are the best diet, 
flesh being especially avoided. Supply fresh water all the time. Meat- 
broth may be given to old dogs that are very weak. The disease is one to 
which the dog is more liable than is generally supposed. It may often be 
avoided by a proper sheltering of an animal after it has become heated by 
a hard run, 
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