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 nose and eves commences. In some others, also, the 

 first attack is made on the loins, and weakness of 

 them and the hiiKier extremities is the first sym.ptom 

 observed : but though this paralytic affection is very 

 common, yet, in the greater number of cases, it comes 

 on some time after the other symptoms have appeared. 



Ill some cases the disease wiii make its attack by 

 an universal eruption over the body, particularly 

 under the bellv and down the inside cf the thighs: 

 this eruption is pustular, and tlie pustules are not very 

 dissimilar to those of the small pox. In one year in 

 particular, almost every case that fell under my notice 

 ^Tas accompanied with this appearance. It was also 

 attended \vith very deep yellow-coloured urine, and 

 great marks of biliary affection. 



The distemper will sometimes appear by a violent 

 gathering or tumour forming in some part of the 

 body, particularly of the head ; but this is not a 

 common mode of i^ttack. 



The conviilsicris that dogs are subject to from dis- 

 temper are of two kinds : the one is this paralytic af- 

 fection, which frequently leaves a spasmodic tv/itching 

 in one or more of the limbs for life ; the other is a 

 perfect fit, when every part of the body is convulsed 

 and stranselv contorted, and there is a total mental 

 alienation. When a dog very early in distemper has a 

 fit, or an occasional fit now and then, such a dog 

 may recover ; but when the complaint has made some 

 progress, and fits come on, followed in succession by 

 each other, such a dog never recovers. This sort cf 

 fit is frequently trifling at first, producing only a slight 

 champing of the mouth, with a ihile froth ; from 

 which state a dog may be almost immediately brought 



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