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puppies commonly have distemper severely, although 

 this does, to a large extent, depend upon the fact as 

 to whether the parents have come from a vigorous 

 strain, and one in which in-breeding has not been 

 carried to excess. There can be little doubt but this 

 has a modifying influence in that terrible canine 

 scourge, distemper. Bloodhounds are liable to the 

 same accidents and diseases that are incidental to 

 other dogs, but perhaps the commonest troubles are 

 eczema, worms, and, in young dogs, distemper. 

 There is a popular but stupid fallacy, stupid because 

 it arises through want of better understanding, that 

 cows' milk leads to the production of worms in dogs. 

 The author is not aware of a single entozoon ex- 

 clusively affecting the ox that has any existence in 

 the dog, and even if the dog did form a host for the 

 larval forms of internal parasites of the ox, the milk 

 of the cow would certainly not be the channel for the 

 transmission of such. Puppies can be reared either 

 on cows' milk or any of the artificial foods suitable 

 for such purposes. 



