48 DISEASES OF DOGS. 



the purpose. Vaccine inoculation has been re- 

 commended for the prevention of distemper in 

 dogs ; I tried the experiment repeatedly, but did 

 not find it satisfactory. The distemper is highly 

 contagious. 



^' When a dog has been severely affected with 

 distemper, fits will sometimes follow\ These fits 

 will generally give way to copious venesection and 

 physic, as already described; but should they 

 continue, the unfortunate animal should be de- 

 stroyed, or the affliction may produce that dread- 

 ful malady, canine madness, erroneously denomi- 

 nated hydrophobia.'' 



FITS. 



For the cure of fits the reader is referred to the 

 first paragraph in the preceding article. It is 

 necessary to keep the animaPs bowels open. 



THE HYDROPHOBIA. 



This is a dreadful disease in the human subject ; 

 but it is miscalled in the dog. In the latter there 

 is no dread of water. I never saw but two cases 

 in the dog, the symptoms of one of A^ hich I will 

 endeavour to describe, though the recollection of 



