340 = The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
Chest-founder, or kennel-lameness, is indicated by stiff- 
ness and pain in the shoulders, the animal has difficulty in 
extending its fore-legs, and when going downhill exhibits 
much the same appearance as a horse with navicular dis- 
ease, or laminitis. If the limbs are extended outwards, or 
laterally, excruciating pain is caused. 
In both the latter forms considerable fever is present. 
Youatt observes: “ This chest-founder is a singular com- 
plaint, and often a pest in kennels that are built in low 
situations, and where bad management prevails; where the 
huntsmen or whippers-in are too oftenin a hurry to get home 
and turn their dogs into the kennel panting and hot ; where 
the beds are not far enough from the floor, or the building 
if it should be in a sufficiently elevated situation, has yet a 
northern aspect, and is unsheltered from the blast, chest- 
founder prevails ; and I have known half the pack affected 
by it after a severe run, the scent breast-high, and the 
morning unusually cold.” 
Treatment.—lTf rheumatism is due to the presence of 
lactic acid, alkaline agents would appear to be those 
indicated in the treatment of the disease, and in the 
majority of cases under my own care I have found their 
use attended with marked benefit. The nitrate of potass, 
10 to 15 grains, and bicarbonate of soda, 20 to 30 grains, 
in proportion to the size of the dog, should be given ina 
spoonful or two of water twice or three times a day. 
A fixed rule of treatment, however, cannot be laid down 
for every case of rheumatism: some cases from time to time 
occur which will not yield to alkalies alone ; the addition of 
colchicum, 2 to 5 grains, is in such instances frequently of 
great service. Mercury—recommended by some authori- 
ties—is, in my opinion, not a desirable agent, for not only 
is its use attended with susceptibility to cold in the animal it 
is administered to, and which in rheumatic affections should 
especially be avoided, but, by its depressing and salivatory 
effects, hinders the removal of a complaint which requires 
