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malady has been known for a much longer time on 

 the Continent than in this country. It is as infectious 

 among dogs as the small-pox, measles, and scarlet 

 fever among the human species ; and the contagious 

 miasmata, like those arising from the diseases just 

 mentioned, retain their destructive properties a long 

 time after separation from the distempered animal. 

 Young hounds, for example, brought in a state of 

 health into a kennel where others have gone through 

 the distemper seldom escape it. Kennels have been 

 carefully washed with water, then whitewashed, and 

 even repeatedly fumigated with muriatic acid, without 

 any good results. The dogs generally sicken the 

 second week after exposure to the contagion. It 

 commences with inflammation of the substance of 

 the lungs, and generally of the mucous membrane 

 of the bronchia. The inflammation at the same 

 time seizes on the membranes of the nostrils, and 

 those lining the bones of the nose, particularly the 

 nasal portion of the ethmoid bone. These membranes 

 are often inflamed to such a degree as to occasion 

 extravasation of blood. 



Dr Jenner mentions a case which came under his 

 observation, of a dog dying within twenty-four hours 

 after infection, and in that short space of time the 

 greater portion of the lungs was, from exudation, 

 converted into a substance nearly as solid as the 

 liver of a sound animal. When inflammation of 

 the lungs is very severe, the dog frequently dies on 

 the third day. 



By judicious treatment, the distemper might be, 

 in all probability, entirely banished, or at least its 

 features be very much mitigated. 



Colonel Hawker, in his Instructions to Young 

 Sportsmen, mentions a case oi a dog belonging to 



