38 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



and bands of lymph across the walls of the chest ; recent 

 adhesions, and considerable thickening of the pleura, coated 

 with lymph. 



Treatment. — Pleurisy, from the acu'teness of its character 

 and rapidity of its progress, demands prompt and active 

 measures ; bleeding, advocated by other authors, is not, in my 

 opinion, admissible, or in accordance with the character of 

 the disease ; which is excessively lowering in itself, and weak- 

 ening the volume of blood would have a tendency rather to 

 promote what of all things we should wish to avoid — eflEusion 

 — than check the inflammatory process and prevent its occur- 

 rence. Purgatives are equal])' inadmissible, and, of the two, 

 more dangerous ; for if excessive action of the bowels is ex- 

 cited in any inflammatory chest affection, it is with the utmost 

 difficulty it can be checked ; more often is the case, of which 

 I have had painful experience, that its abatement has not 

 been accomplished, and death has been hastened thereby. 



The remedial measures best adapted to this disease are 

 diffusible stimulants and counter-irritation. 



Spt. ^ther. Nit 2 ounces. 



Liq. Ammon. Acetat .^^ 4 " 



A teaspoonful every four hours in twice the quantity of 

 linseed tea for a small dog, and double of each for a large 

 one. 



Counter-irritation may be applied to the chest in the form 

 of mustard-plasters, ammonia or terebinth embrocation, or 

 hot linseed-meal poultices. The temperature of the body 

 should be equalized as much as possible, but due regard to 

 the observance of proper ventilation is necessary. Many 

 persons wrongly imagine that a warm room and the exclusion 

 of fresh air is equally necessary to the lower animal as to the 

 higher — a fatal error. 



Where the debility rapidly increases, and there is danger 

 of effusion taking place, tinct. of ferri, 5 to 10 minims, should 

 ' be added to each dose of the stimulant. This, from its con- 

 stringent power, is undoubtedly one of the best agents we 



