302 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



soft palate. Of the few affected animals which survived, 

 one, while recovering, became blind of both eyes, with, at 

 first, no appreciable structural alteration of the organs, al- 

 though in a few days the cornea of both became opaque, 

 apparently from infiltration of the intimate structures of the 

 membrane ; ultimately, sight was restored. 



"Another, about a fortnight after the obvious symptoms 

 of the disease had disappeared, became affected with clonic 

 spasms, or twitching of the muscles of the face and cervical 

 region, followed in a few days by paraplegia. After a 

 tedious convalescence, this animal also regained full nervous 

 power. 



. " Being satisfied regarding the nature of the disease, we 

 counselled the removal of all those dogs housed in the 

 kennel as yet uncontaminated ; and the shifting of such as 

 were still, to appearance, healthy from the kennel where 

 the disease had arisen to this one, vacated by the unaffected. 

 Immediately following this, the drains of the place were 

 ordered to he. examined, as the sanitary condition was the 

 opposite of satisfactory. On being laid open, these were 

 found all but completely choked with filth, the more fluid 

 portions of the sewage having for some time been perco- 

 lating into the soil beneath the flooring of the keflnel, 

 rather than discharged in the natural or proper manner. 



" The principal drain, I may mention, had a communi- 

 cation with the dormitory portion of the kennel, by means 

 of an ordinary perforated grating. This kennel had no 

 communication by means of its drains with the other, which, 

 as already mentioned, was in close proximity, and where 

 the dogs continued healthy. 



" The dogs removed from the uncontaminated kennel 

 were placed in a stable a mile distant, and continued 

 healthy. 



" Among those taken from the kennel where, the disease 

 originated, and located in the other, three fresh cases oc- 

 curred after their removal, one of which died. 



