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DISTEMPER. 

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' The term distemper^ whose literal meaning is 

 If fi deranged condition of the animal economy, is 

 ^ 'particularly applied ta animals of the brute 

 M^reation. To the dog, when afflicted with that 

 ^ disease somewhat resembling typhus fever in 

 J the human race. As canine pathology has been 

 K^ given more attention in the past few years than 

 formerly, we have now become quite familiar 

 ^ with the nature of the disease and the remedies 

 \ indicated ; consequently the loss by death is 

 comparatively small when proper treatment and 

 ^attention are employed. Microscopic analysis 

 o^ot the blood during distemper shows the exist- 

 ^ence of bacilli life. In early days, those dogs 

 J2 that were fortunate enough to survive this dis- 

 ease, did so merely through strength of constitu- 

 ^ tion and not from the assistance of any remedial 

 h-^ agents, as utter ignorance of the subject then 

 '-^ prevailed. The disease doubtless then appeared 

 '^^in a much milder form than that with which our 

 r present highly bred animals are afflicted. 



Owing to more or less inbreeding that has 

 been indulged in to intensify certain form and 



