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Causes — None. Causes — Inflammatory action in- 



ternally pervading the system. 



Prognosis — Very bad, always Prognosis — Good or bad, accord- 

 fatal, no chance of recovery. ing to the severity of the fits. 



Terminations — The symptoms do Terminations — A fit. 

 not vary to any great extent 

 towards the termination. 



Pathology — Intense inflamma- Pathology — Inflammation of the 

 tion of the brain, extending to brain, often extending to the 

 the throat and lungs. throat, the lungs, and often 



the intestines. 



Prophylactic Treatment — None. Prophylactic Treatment-Vaccina- 

 tion is a certain preventative. 



To this definition of the two insanities, we may 

 add, that the term ^^ rabies" should never "be used. 

 ''Hydrophobia" and ''distemper madness" are 

 amply sufficient to indicate the two insanities, and 

 to keep them distinct, the term "rabies" has been 

 foolishly made to cover every sort of madness to 

 which the brain of the dog is subject, including the 

 always fatal one of hydrophobia. It has induced 

 in humanity death arising from nervous apprehen- 

 sion, and to the canine race the most cruel and 

 needless destruction. 



The "common distemper" is essentially an 



"epidemic"; it is in the air, and will affect a 



whole kennel of young hoimds at the same time; 



whence it comes or in what it arises, I have never 



been able to discover. 



