18 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
attended with benefit. Purgatives should on no account be 
resorted to. Impaction of faeces can best be removed by 
means of plain enemas. ; 
The diet must be nourishing and easy of digestion, as 
broth, beet-tea, gruel, or milk. For chest complications, 
refer to treatment under their respective heads. 
LARYNGITIS. 
Inflammation of the larynx, the upper or vocal part of 
the windpipe, is an affection very commonly met with in 
canine practice. Highly pampered dogs, particularly pugs 
and yard dogs with deficient shelter, are most liable to 
laryngitis. I have also observed what may be designated 
a temporary or simple form of it, in sheep-dogs when 
gathering flocks together, and the same is not uncommon 
at and after dog-shows, due to incessant barking. 
Predisposing Causes— Frequent and long-continued bark~- 
ing ; a previous attack of the same disease. 
Exciting Causes.—Exposure to wet and cold,the presence 
of foreign matter, injuries, irritating inhalations, or exten- 
sion of neighbouring inflammation. 
Symptoms.—Hoarseness, cough easily induced by external 
pressure, increased respiration and salivary secretion, frothy 
discharge from the nostrils, difficulty in swallowing, and 
pyrexia ; pulse small, hard, and frequent... These sym- 
-ptoms, if not checked, rapidly increase, and the patient dies 
from suffocation. 
Treatment.*—Of course removal of the cause is primarily 
* (Esterreichische Vierteljahresschrift, 1873.) Harms injected 0:07 
grammes of morphine hydrochlorate, in solution, beneath the skin of 
a dog which had been suffering from a dry laryngeal cough for four 
weeks. For two hours after the injection, the animal exhibited every 
symptom of complete narcotism, with total loss of consciousness and 
sensibility. In the course of eight hours it manifested sensibility 
