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Symptoms: Severe and frequent coughing, difficult breathing, rattling of phlegm in windpipe. In bad cases, dog unable to lie down.

Treatment: Place in fairly warm room, and keep a kettle going to moisten air. When breathing very difficult and the throat seems full of phlegm, give an emetic.

Recipe:

Hydrochlorate of Apomorphia,	½ grain.
Water to	1 ounce.

Dose: Half[1] to two teaspoonfuls; repeat in one hour if it has not caused vomiting. When sickness stopped, commence following mixture:—

Recipe:

Liq. Morphia,	1 drachm.
Hoffmann’s Spirits,	2 drachms.
Paregoric,	1½ drachms.
Ipecacuanha Wine,	1 drachm.
Syrup of Squills,	1 ounce.
Water to	3 ounces.

Dose: One teaspoonful to a tablespoonful[1] every four or six hours. Apply hot linseed meal poultices to throat and front of chest. Give aperient medicine. The emetic, if the cough and breathing remain bad, may be repeated in two days. When the active symptoms have passed and the cough better, petroleum emulsion may be given. During early stages light diet should be given; later meat.