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necessary, and then treatment should be directed 
to the effect. If the disease is early recognised, 
mild counterirritants to the larynx externally, hot 
fomentation or linseed-meal poultice, an emetic, and a 
warm moist atmosphere, will generally effect a cure. In 
fact, a dog with laryngitis requires much the 
same treatment as a child with croup. Where the 
symptoms have become so aggravated that suffocation is 
threatened, tracheotomy is indicated, and all further treat- 
ment must be external. Attempting to drench a dog at 
this stage is attended with great danger, from the ex- 
tremely irritable condition of the throat. A violent fit of 
coughing, ending in asphyxia, would, in all probability, be 
_the result of such a proceeding. (For the extraction or 
removal of foreign matters, see “ Choking.”) 
The diet should consist entirely of slops of a mucila- 
ginous nature, as broth, beef-tea, or milk thickened with 
isinglass, ~ 
CHRONIC LARYNGITIS 
Is not an unfrequent sequel of the former. It is charac- 
terised by continued hoarseness, with periodical exacerba- 
tions, specially induced by over-exertion, or the sudden 
inhalation of cold air, a dry husky cough, and mucous 
expectoration. We may relieve the symptoms, but when 
finally established the disease is incurable. Iron, cod-liver 
oil, and an occasional dose of tartar emetic are the best 
medicinal agents. Local treatment is often beneficial. 
Biniodide of mercury—1 part to 16 of lard—applied twice 
when pricked with a pin, and could raise itself on its four limbs. In 
twenty-four hours it was able to stagger into its kennel, but it had no 
appetite. In two days and a half it wasas lively as before the injec- 
tion ; and until it left the hospital a week afterwards, the cough had 
pot returned .—( Veterinary Journal, Sept., 1875.) 
