This is quickly followed by a muco parulent 

 discharge from the eyes and nose, later, perhaps 

 ulceration of either eyes or eye-lids. Labored 

 respiration, constipation or obstinate diarrhoea, 

 usually the latter, which frequently runs into 

 inflammation of the bowels There is inflamma- 

 tion of the mucous membrane of the entire ali- 

 mentary canal, and all the organs in time be- 

 coming more or less involved. A pustulous 

 eruption on the skin is by some authors consid- 

 ered a favorable symptom, but to trie it is evi- 

 dence of a vitiated condition of the blood. In 

 some cases many of the above symptoms will be 

 absent, the bowels being the first parts attacked. 

 The following which sometimes, but not neces- 

 sarily occurring with distemper, I classify as 

 complications, viz.: Fits, Chorea, Paralysis, 

 Pneumonia or Broncho-Pneumonia, Jaundice, 

 and Inflammation of the Bowels, and will require 

 treatment independent of any one remedy that 

 may be given. 



Distemper Fits differ from ordinary epilepsy 

 inasmuch as the animal does not rush about 

 violently, but will lie prostrate upon one side, 

 champing the jaws and frothing slightly from 

 the mouth, the duration of which is indefinite — 

 perhaps lasting for hours. This I consider the 

 worst feature in distemper. In ordinary epi- 

 lepsy, the attack usually subsides in from 10 to 

 20 minutes. The latter will be more thoroughly 



