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and Mr. Youatt ; and although personally unknown to me, his re- 

 putation stands high among veterinarians, and I should recommend 

 that he be applied to on all canine ailments. 



CLASS I. 



phlegmasia:, or important inflammatory affections. 



Idiopathic or Primary Fever is not very apparent in the dog, 

 although our present knowledge will not allow us to deny its 

 occasional existence. We are, however, certain, that if it ever 

 does exist in its simple and uncombined state, it does not often 

 remain so ; but is usually, in its early stage, translated to some 

 individual organ, or set of organs, and then runs its course as 

 symptomatic fever, which is by no means uncommon in the dog : 

 on the contrary, prominent instances are offered us in the fever 

 of distemper, and in the fever of rabies ; in both of which there 

 is evidently, throughout the system generally, a state of diffused 

 inflammatory action : and although both of these partake of the 

 nature of specific affections, yet the anomalous symptoms of each 

 are such as to render it difficult to fix their original seat of attack, 

 or to establish their true characters. 



Sub-Class I. 



inflammation of mucous membranes. 



SPECIFIC CATARRHAL DISEASE, OR DISTEMPER. 



The Distemper, as characterizing an individual disease, though 

 a very absurd and indefinite term, is become so conventional, that 

 it is not easy to rid our descriptions of it. It is thought to have 

 gained this name from the same source that we derived the disease 

 itself, the French ; with whom it is called La Maladie, It is, 

 however, possible that it was called distemper after the epidemic 

 catarrh of horses, which being a common complaint long known 



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