THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. 



This is usually a sequel of the acute form, and is more 

 generally met with in old animals. It rarely leaves the 

 patient, and increases in severity in the cold- seasons of the 



year. 



The symptoms are invariable : cough of a husky charac- 

 ter, shortness of breath, increased with exertion, expectora- 

 tion, and retching. 



Treatment. — This consists in alleviating the symptoms, 

 and avoiding unnecessary exposure to cold and damp. Oc- 

 casional stimulants combined with iron form the best medici- 

 nal treatment, and the cough mixture prescribed in the acute 

 form is also useful. 



VERMINOUS BRONCHITIS IN DOGS.* 



Early in the month of January I was asked by Principal 

 McEachran, F.R.C.V.S., to aid him in the investigation of a 

 disease which had broken out among the pups at the kennels 

 of the Montreal Hunt Club, and which was believed to be of 

 a pneumonic nature. On proceeding to the place we found 

 that the affection was confined almost exclusively to animals 

 under eight months old, and that it had already proved fatal 

 in severaHnstances. At the time of the visit only one pup 

 was ill, presenting symptoms of diminished air space in the 

 chest. In order to ascertain the exact condition of the lungs, 

 one of the pups, which had died a day or two previously, and 

 had meanwhile frozen stiff, was ordered to be sent to the 



* A Paper read before the Montreal Veterinary Medical Association, 

 March 29th, 1877, by William Osier, M.D., L.R.C.P. Lond. ; Fellow of 

 the Royal Microscopical Society, London ; Vice-President of the Mon- 

 treal Veterinary Medical Association ; Professor of Physiology in McGill 

 University, and in the Veterinary College, Montreal. 



