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be as fresh as possible) make three or four oblique punctures in 

 the skin, to such a dej)th as barely to draw blood, charging the 

 lancet afresh each time. If the lymph cannot be procured fresh, 

 the punctures must be made as above described, and then the 

 points charged with dry Ij^mph must be introduced one in each 

 puncture and well rubbed into the cut surface so as to insure the 

 removal of the lymph from the points. In four or five days an 

 imperfect vesicle is formed, which, if not rubbed, goes on to ma- 

 turity and scabs at the end of ten days or thereabout. There are 

 various other methods suggested, such as introducing a piece of 

 thread dipped in the virus, &c., but the above is the proper plan, 

 if any is likely to be effectual. 



The treatment of the various sequels of distemj)er, including fits, 

 palsy, &c., will be given under those heads respectively. 



RHEUMATIC PEVER. 



One of the most common diseases in the dog is rheumatism 

 in some form, generally showing itself with very little fever, but 

 sometimes being accompanied with a high degree of that attendant 

 evil. The frequency of this disease is owing to the constant ex- 

 posure of the dog to cold and wet, and very often to his kennel 

 being damp, which is the fertile source of kennel lameness, or 

 chest-founder, which is nothing more than rheumatism of the 



