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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 con- 

 tagion. 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, a,nd 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 observa- 

 tion, of a dog dying within twenty-four hours after infec- 

 tion, 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 Sports- 

 men,'' mentions a case of a dog belonging to himself, on 

 which he performed inoculation, by vaccine virus, or the 

 matter of cow-pox, had the efiect of preventing the dis- 

 temper completely ; and this was found an efiectual pre- 

 ventive by James Drearden, Esq., of Rochdale, Lancashire, 

 coniirmed by an extensive and successful practice. It would 

 certainly be worth while to try this expedient, as being ex- 

 ceedingly simple ; and we have ascertained that in the 



