148 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



times recover ; but if, while in this state, injections are 

 returned as soon as they are administered, the chance 

 that it can survive is indeed remote. 



Recovery, in extreme cases, usually commences after 

 diarrhoea which had set in has subsided, rather than 

 during its attack. This is the only semblance to any- 

 thing approaching a crisis which has come hither under 

 my observation. If simultaneously the eyes lose their 

 red and glassy aspect, and the cough returns, the danger 

 may be supposed to have been passed. For weeks, how- 

 ever, the animal will require attention ; for the conva- 

 lescence is often more difficult to master than the disease 

 itself is to cure ; and relapses, always more dangerous 

 than the original attack, are by no means unusual. The 

 recovery may not be perfect before one or even two 

 months have expired ; but usually it is rapid, and the 

 health is better than it was previous to the disease. A 

 dog which would before never make flesh, having had 

 the distemper, will often become fat. I once tried all in 

 my power to relieve a Newfoundland dog of worms, but 

 though I persisted for months, I was at last reluctantly 

 obliged to admit the case was beyond any treatment I 

 dared employ. A fortnight after I had given it up, the 

 same animal was brought to me, suffering under evident 

 distemper. I was not displeased to see it in that state, 

 for I felt I could overcome the disease ; and I told the 

 proprietor that with the distemper the worms would de- 

 part. So it proved, and the dog has not since been sub- 

 ject to the annoyance. 



