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their pellicles, and permits tlie purulent matter to escape ; and 

 the influence of this purulent matter is most pernicious. The 

 fever is increased, and also the unpleasant smell from the mouth, 

 and that of the fteces. In this state there is a disposition which 

 is rapidly developed in the lungs to assume the character of 

 pneumonia. This last complication is a most serious one, and 

 almost always terminates fatally. It has a peculiar character. It 

 shows itself suddenly, and with all its alarming s^^mptoms. It is 

 almost immediately accompanied by a purulent secretion from the 

 bronchi, and the second day does not pass without the characters 

 of pneumonia being completely developed. The respiration is 

 accompanied by a mucous rale which often becomes sibilant. 

 The nasal cavities are filled with a purulent fluid. The dog that 

 coughs violently at the commencement of the disease employs 

 himself, probably, on the following day in ejecting, by a forcible 

 expulsion from the nostrils, the purulent secretion which is soon 

 and plentifully developed. When he is lying quiet, and even 

 when he seems to be asleej), there is a loud, stertorous, guttural 

 breathing." 



SYMPATHETIC FEVEE. 



This term is applied to the fever which comes on either before 



or after some severe local affection, and being, as it were, eclipsed 



by it. Thus in all severe inflammations there is an accompanying 



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