174 Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. 
signs are likely to be mistaken for choking, or the fixing 
of a bone between the molars, a special examination of 
the mouth should always be made; or the disease may 
be confounded with “dumb rabies” in which the mouth 
cannot remain closed. 
Treatment.—Wash or gargle the mouth frequently with 
astringent lotion of tannic acid, alum, boracic acid, &c., 
or use one of the electuaries. Relieve the tumefaction 
of the throat by means of hot fomentations. Spongio 
piline as described under Poultices. Do not attempt to 
give food or medicine by the mouth, but support the 
system by injections of beef tea or mutton broth free from 
fut, in which half a drachm or more of nitrous ether may 
be given. With diminution of the sore throat, appetite 
will return, when food may be given by the mouth in 
small portions, carefully prepared, until the symptoms 
have disappeared. In some severe cases the attendant 
swelling necessitates the opening of the windpipe to 
admit of respiration; blisters may also be required 
to hasten suppuration in the glands, or to reduce the 
irritation in the throat, the use of which must be 
aclopted only after careful consideration of the existing 
conditions. 
Aphonia, or Less of the Voice, is a state in which the 
berk is reduced to a rough and husky kind of sound, 
resembling a forcible expiration. The vocal chords being 
inflamed and relaxed from incessant barking, the sudden 
shocks from the collar in running violently to the end of 
the chain also bruise the larynx, which aggravates the 
complaint. Aphonia arises in conjunction with laryngitis, 
which see. 
Snoring proceeds from a relaxed state of the laryngeal 
or throat apparatus, as induced by cold in which the 
vocal chords and velum palati are involved. It is removed 
by the remedies prescribed for laryngitis; but when it 
occurs in pet dogs highly fed and pampered, taking little 
or no exercise, the ¢veatment must consist of a reduced 
dict, regular exertion, gentle cathartics, and subsequently 
tonics. 
. Inflammation of the Organs of Respiration con- 
