84 THE DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



severe cases the animal's head must be held over steam fre- 

 quently during the day, and stimulant tonic medicine admin- 

 istered with care — say a drachm each of nitrous ether and 

 tincture of gentian, to which may be added a grain of 

 ipecacuanha or of squills ; to be repeated every eight hours. 

 The strength must be sustained by nutritious diet of a 

 laxative character ; neither emetics nor cathartics should 

 be used. When the disease persists tonic pills may be 

 given. 



When Soee-theoat sets in, great care must be taken in 

 administration of medicine ; in severe cases nutritive and 

 tonic enemata must be resorted to. The throat should be 

 bathed freely and the mouth and nostrils steamed. There 

 will be some swelling of the neighbouring glands, cough 

 (often very troublesome), difficulty in swallowing, breath- 

 ing somewhat obstructed, return of liquids through the 

 nostrils, a fetid state of the saliva which trickles from the 

 mouth, breath offensive, voice altered or lost. In these 

 cases our main aim must be to support the strength of the 

 patient. When the swelling is very great it may be 

 necessary to perform tracheotomy. In sore-throat the 

 parts should be carefully examined through the mouth in 

 order that we may assure ourselves of the absence of 

 sharp pieces of bone (firmly fixed on the top of the 

 molars, for instance) or other impediments to free passage. 

 This disease must not be mistaken for " dumb madness," 

 in which the mouth cannot be closed, and there is no 

 cough. 



Ozjjna bears the same relation to coryza as dysentery 

 does to diarrhoea. In it the mucous membrane is chronic- 

 ally inflamed, perhaps ulcerated, the turbinal structures may 

 be diseased, and pus or vomited matters may be so 

 entangled in them as to keep up the irritation and be 

 unable to escape. 



The symptoms are chronic snuffling and a rattling sound 

 in passage of the air through the chambers ; dulness ; a 

 discharge of ichorous or sanguineous pus from the nostrils 

 often smelling very fetid. It is generally seen in small- 

 faced dogs such as pugs and bulldogs. Touatt considers 



