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own barbaric methods or safely confined where 

 thej' cannot exploit their ignorance. 



Distemper is due to a specific germ, a micro- 

 organism, that gains entrance to the animal's 

 system and sets up a ferment in the blood, with 

 the symptoms of which all dog men are famil- 

 iar. A dog cannot have the disease without 

 the germ, and the germ cannot develop spon- 

 taneously. It comes from an affected dog, and 

 unfortunately this germ is so tenacious of life 

 and will exist so long under adverse conditions, 

 that it is practically impossible to eradicate it. 

 Science has discovered the germ and science 

 has discovered how to destroy the germ and 

 save the dog. Treating the cause of the dis- 

 ease, and not the symptoms, is the only rational 

 method of combating distemper. Dent's Dis- 

 temperine is the only cure for distemper that 

 can be absolutely relied upon. After its discov- 

 ery it was made the subject of a great public 

 test, through the columns of the sportmen's 

 papers, and conclusively proven as a positive 

 cure for distemper in its ordinary forms as 

 vaccination is for smallpox or antitoxin for 

 diphtheria. 



It is easily administered and if the directions 

 are carefully followed the danger of losing a 

 valuable puppy with distemper or of having 

 him afflicted with chorea is minimized. 



There are imitations of this remedv on the 



