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matous. This established the existence of laryngeal phthisis in 
animals. 
Amid the numerous inflammatory diseases of the chest that we 
have observed in the dog, the following ought to occupy a place 
in this report. A large sized dog, very robust, very docile to 
his master, but having a great propensity to fight with all his 
own species, was brought to our infirmary on the 22d of March. 
We were told that he had been ill some days : his appetite was 
nearly gone; and he had become very thin: his respiration was 
difficult, short, and accelerated; the intercostal spaces large, 
the breath fetid, a little mucus running from the nose: the eyes 
were red, the pulse frequent, soft, and small, the temperature 
of the body low, the skin dry and foul, and the hair dull; the 
urine rarely evacuated, and the underpart of the breast and the 
feet rapidly began to be cedematous; in short, he had every 
symptom of hydro-pleuritis. This dog was kept to guard a very 
cold damp warehouse at night. 
We immediately inserted a seton, and blisters were placed on 
different parts of the body ; mucilaginous drinks were given him 
daily, in which were half an ounce of digitalis and three grains 
of nitre. We fed him with barley-water and milk ; and the 
bowels were kept open by injections. The two or three first 
days, he appeared to feel great pain in the chest, and we 
diminished the dose of digitalis one half. Notwithstanding 
this treatment the disease increased, the swelling augmented, as 
did the difficulty of breathing, and the urine was seldom dis¬ 
charged. It was at length resolved to puncture the chest, and 
we obtained nearly two pounds of serous fluid, so highly colour¬ 
ed, that it might easily have been mistaken for blood. The 
puncture was not closed, and covered only by a bandage so con¬ 
trived that the matter could still run off. 
From this day the respiration became easier, the appetite was 
renewed, the urine flowed more freely, the oedema diminished, 
and he became lively. On the 26th of April nothing remained 
but a slight emaciation, and some apparent pain and swelling in 
the left stifle : the pains and the swelling had nearly disappeared 
on the 12th of May. On the 13th, the same rheumatic affection 
