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CHAPTER III. 



FEVERS, AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



Simple Ephemeral Fever, or Cold. — Epidemic Eever, or Influenza. — Typhus 

 Eever, or Distemper. — Rheumatic Fever. — Small-Pox. — Sympathetic 

 Fever. 



The dog is peculiarly liable to febrile attacks, wbicb Lave 

 always a tendency to put on a low form, very similar in its 

 nature to that known as typbus in human medicine. This is 

 so generally the case, that every dog is said to have the dis- 

 temper at some time of his life, that name being given to this 

 low form of fever. Hence, an attack may commence with a 

 common cold, or any inflammatory affection of the lungs, 

 bowels, &c.; but^ this going on to assume the low form, it 

 becomes a case of genuine typhus fever, or distemper. Never- 

 theless, it does not follow that the one must necessarily end 

 in the other ; and so the dog may have simple fever, known as 

 " a cold," or various other complaints, without being subjected to 

 the true distemper. The fevers occurring in the dog are : 1st, 

 Simple ephemeral fever, commonly called " a cold ; " 2nd, Simple 

 epidemic fever, or Influenza ; 3rd, Typhus fever, known as Dis- 

 temper ; 4th, Rheumatic fever, attacking the muscular and 

 fibrous systems ; and, 5thly, Small-pox. 



