General Diseases. 335 



"Mastronardi Innorenza, of the Naples Veterinary 

 School, in the ' Giornale delle razze degli animali utili e di 

 Medicina Veterinaria,' after giving some general indica- 

 tions as to the nature, &c., of leukaemia, describes an 

 instance of this disease in a dog. The symptoms were 

 those of combined lienal and lymphatic leukaemia. The 

 animal died. Innorenza was inclined to attribute the de- 

 velopment of the malady to the alterations due to the 

 disease of young dogs commonly known" as 'distemper,' 

 the manifestations of which had preceded those of leukaemia 

 in this case."* 



ANEMIA. 



Badly cared-for dogs, and especially those of weakly 

 constitution, are, like human beings, subject to poverty or 

 deficiency in the quality of the blood. In other words, 

 they become anaemic. Puppies are more likely to be so 

 affected than adult animals, and this is due to the method 

 of rearing, or, at all events, to neglect in avoiding causes 

 which I shall mention as giving rise to this condition of the 

 circulation. 



Over-crowding, defective ventilation, stinted light, bad 

 drainage, innutritious food are each productive of anaemia. 

 Observe the pallid countenance and languid step of an 

 individual who is confined in a crowded, ill-ventilated 

 workshop throughout the day, as contrasted with one 

 whose occirpation gives him every chance of imbibing 

 pure, or at any rate, fresh air, and you have a true and 

 daily illustration of the effect of these sanitary arrange- 

 ments, which may be with equal force applied to the 

 canine race. 



Indeed, fresh air and light are as essential to dogs, for 

 the formation of good blood, as to man. Air must, to 

 maintain health, be renewed, not re-used. It is the oxygen 



* "Leukaemia in the Dog," by Innorenza; "Annales de MM. 

 Vfitferinaire." 



