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more virulent and fatal than at other times, 

 or in some kennels more than in others, is 

 it not also true that climatic or atmospheric 

 conditions may be responsible for an ex- 

 ceptionally severe season on the one hand, 

 and sanitary or dietary conditions on the 

 other ? 



There is scarcely a well-known disease 

 of any description but what will, at differ- 

 ent seasons and in different individuals, 

 show as many and varied forms as can be 

 found in the disease under question. I 

 have often been called to examine severe 

 cases, but in every instance the ordinary 

 symptoms were present together with other 

 symptoms, undoubtedly induced by the se- 

 verity of the attack, the cause of which it 

 was not always easy to determine ; but, as 

 a rule, careful investigation would show a 

 strong probability, to say the least, that 

 the severity of the attack was due to the 

 fact that the one who had charge of the 

 animal had imperfectly done, or had left 



