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which complicate distemper must be treated at 

 the outset exactly as the same diseases would 

 have been treated in their sporadic form. The 

 strength of the animal must be kept up, but do 

 not force food unless it is absolutely necessary. 

 The local diseases complicating distemper re- 

 quire more stimulating treatment than they 

 do "in their simpler form, and the best stimu- 

 lant is small doses of twenty to thirty drops of 

 whisky or brandy. 



Glanders. 



It is not the place in a book of this sort to 

 go into any extended description of glanders, 

 as it is rarely found in cats other than in those 

 around knackers 7 yards, in zoological gardens, 

 or in the post-mortem rooms of a veterinary 

 college; but practitioners should always bear 

 in mind the susceptibility of the feline race to 

 this disease. Glanders is a constitutional dis- 

 ease accompanied by the formation of tubercles 

 over the mucous membrane of the respiratory 

 tract and over the skin, which break down into 

 ulcers, and of tubercles in the lungs themselves 



