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 coimt of the disease, and its mode of nire, those who 

 wish for further ioformatioo are referred to it, its 

 price being only One Shilling. The Distemper, 

 though now so general and common, is nevertiieless a 

 disease that does not appear to have been kno^vn a 

 century ago; and even yet throughout the European 

 Continent it is considered as an epidemic that visits 

 them every three or four years. But now hardly any 

 dog escapes it ; it being a disease to which every dog 

 is born with a constitutional liability, and which is 

 brought into action by either the predisposition exist- 

 ing within him, or by a cold taken. In most instaiices 

 the attack occurs either before or about the period 

 that a dog attains his full growth. Dogs however 

 w'ill, in sojne very few instances, escape it altogether, 

 and others have it at two, tliree, or even several years 

 old ; no period whatever being exempt from its at- 

 tack. In pugs, terriers, and some others, it will apr 

 pear in two or three weeks after they are born ; and 

 this is still more frequent with pugs than with any 

 other kind of dog. It is not unfrequent for dogs to 

 have it a second time : this second attack is generally 

 within a year from the first ; but sometimes they will 

 have it at a much longer period from the first attack, 

 and I have seen dogs have it more than twice even. 



From the vast number of cases that fall under my 

 notice, these peculiarities are sufficiently common with 

 me ; but, in general, a {log who has once had distem- 

 per is considered safe from future attack, and perhaps 

 not one dog in a hundred ever does have it a second 



time. 



The distemper commences its attack in various 

 ways; in fact, it is a disease that in its risC; appearacces. 



