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Treatment of Chronic Laryngitis. The patient should have 

 a loose airy box with an equable temperature. The avoidance of 

 work and exposure must be sought for the time. Green food, 

 cut roots, boiled grain, or bran mashes, with little or no hay, or 

 other dry food, must be given. The bowels must be regulated. 

 An electuary composed of linseed meal, molasses, and a drachm 

 of belladonna extract to every tablespoonful of the mixture, may 

 be given to the extent of a tablespoonful smeared on the inner 

 side of the cheek twice daily. A mustard poultice to the throat has 

 often a good effect. lyight firing over the larynx is sometimes 

 beneficial. 



If secretion is defective and cough hard and dry, chloride of 

 ammonium, carbonates or bicarbonates of soda, potash or ammon- 

 ium or borax, in solution or in gaseous form, may be given, the 

 various bitters being at the same time drawn upon as tonics. If 

 secretion is excessive, with a loose gurgling cough, astringents are 

 indicated like ferric sulphate or chloride, (}^ dr.), or they may 

 be applied as spray : alum or iron alum five grains to the ounce, 

 zinc sulphate or sulphocarbolate two grains to the ounce, silver 

 nitrate one-half grain to the ounce or iodine 4 grains, iodide of 

 potassium 10 grains to the ounce of water. These may be intro- 

 duced through the nose with the head elevated, or in small genera 

 through the fauces. Tar, oil of turpentine, creosote, carbolic 

 acid or eucalyptol may be inhaled from hot water. 



Cadeac succeeded perfectly in two obstinate cases by a seton 

 around the throat. 



PHARYNGO— LARYNGITIS IN CATTLE. 



Susceptibility. Causes, symptoms, cough, salivation, wheezing, lach- 

 rymation, muzzle dry, tender throat, dysphagia, d'sturbed innervation and 

 circulation, hyperthermia. Duration. Abscess. Treatment, laxative, 

 local treatment, lancing. 



Cattle are less subject to sore throat than horses. The skin 

 appears less sensitive to the influences of cold and heat. The ox 

 is not subjected to the same severe exertions. It is rarely seen 

 to sweat, the moisture passing off from the surface as insensible 

 perspiration only. The disease, however, recognizes the same 



