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Proffnotie.—The prognosis depends essentially upon the severity of 

 symptoms and efficiency and promptness of tlie treatment. Wben tliere 

 is little or no inflltratlon of the snh-muoons tissues as inferred hy the com- 

 parative ease in hreathing, the chances are favorahle. If the ohstruction 

 aside from that due to spasm, he sufficient to Interfere greatly with respi- 

 ration, a fatal result may he anticipated. 



Treatment.— The, injurious influences of changes in the air, should he 

 avoided hy maintaining a uniform temperature in the room in which the 

 animal is placed. A sponge should he wrung out in hot water, and applied 

 to the neck, being frequently changed. Five grain doses of Dover's powder 

 will greatly relieve the discomfort, and in the milder cases its use is admis- 

 sible. Opiates, in the severer forms of the disease, should be given 

 guardedly, and not carried so far as to blunt the perception of the want of 

 breath. A full dose of castor oil should he given early in the affection, to 

 draw the blood to the intestines. Spasms in breathing are often relieved 

 by emetics, and twenty grams of ipecac can he wisely given during an 

 attack. The oil of copaiba is admirable in. its action, and when inflamma- 

 tion of the larynx first manifests itself, doses of fifteen drops may be given 

 from three to six hours as the severity of the symptoms indicate. It will 

 he well to emulsify it in this way ; add a teaspoonful of the oil to a raw 

 egg, and beat well with a fork ; give one fourth of the quantity at each 

 dose. The following mixture is aJso very efficacious in this disease. — 

 K Potass. Chloratis 5 i 



Ammon. Mur. g 1 



S3rr. Tolu. Si 



AqusB _ gij 



Ft. MiBt. Sig. Dose one teaspoonful in mild oases, every two hours. In 

 very severe attacks, the same dose every fifteen minutes. 



If the disease assumes a severity threatening suffocation, the dog should 

 be made to inhale steam or medicated vapors. If the room be too large 

 to moisten the entire atmosphere, a tent can be made by placing a sheet 

 over two chairs, under that the dog he placed, and a hot iron or stone be 

 thrown Into a pan of water. To medicate the steam add a tablespoonfnl 

 of the compound tincture of benzoin for every quart of water. When 

 death from suffocation is imminent and all other means prove futUe, 

 tracheotomy is the only hope remaining. 



