, Except the animal is kept under the influence of opium, the cough is dreadfully troublesome. I have, however, obtained one point. I have been permitted to subtract four ounces of blood; but blood had been mingling with the expectorated mucus before I was permitted to have recourse to the lancet.
13th
. The dog is better, and we again have recourse to the fever mixture, to which, on the 14th, I added a very small portion of the carbonate of iron, for the dog was evidently getting weak. The sickness has returned, and the cough is decidedly worse.
16th
. Rub a small quantity of rheumatic embrocation, and tincture of cantharides.
17th
. The first application of the blister had not much effect; but this morning it began to act. The dog ran about the house as cross as he could be for more than an hour; there was considerable redness on the throat and chest. The cough, however, was decidedly better.
18th
. The cough is better. Again apply the embrocation.
19th