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fever ceased, the swelling of the head subsided, and the 

 papulae assumed a brown red colour by the 4th or 5th day, 

 disappearing altogether from the 9th to the llth. Desqua- 

 mation of the cuticle usually followed, and some catarrhal 

 symptoms continued. When colic and diarrhoea set in, about 

 the ninth day of the disease, the malady proved fatal. The 

 disease was inoculable by using the discharge from the nose 

 and the scales from the skin. Of 103 animals inoculated, 

 only one died. Hofacker declares that the disease thus 

 described by Ryss was only a form of variola ovina, or com- 

 mon sheep-pox. 



Viborg gives a description of measles in the pig. With 

 the first symptoms of the fever there is cough, vomiting, 

 redness of the eyes, and flow of tears; red papulae then form 

 on the back, eyes, axillae, and inner surface of the thighs, and 

 at a later period, desquamation of the cuticle over these parts 

 is observed. The disease only proved fatal when an offensive 

 diarrhoea set in, or inflammation of the lungs supervened. 

 Viborg recommended the separation of sick from the healthy; 

 paying great attention to cleanliness and free ventilation, and 

 not using much medicine. If the eruption did not manifest 

 itself promptly, he recommended a dose to be given every two 

 hours, consisting of one drachm of carbonate of ammonia and 

 half a drachm of camphor. Amongst sheep it has also been 

 recommended to enforce the separation system, and allow 

 them nitre to lick at will, with water to drink. 



SCAELET FEVEK SCAELATINA. 



This is another of the human disorders which is of doubt- 

 ful occurrence in the lower animals. Mr Erasmus Wilson 

 says, " Scarlatina is an acute inflammation of the tegumen- 

 tary investment of the entire body, both cutaneous and 

 mucous, associated with fever of an infectious and contagious 



