3S6 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



resembling flea-bites, which are quickly transformed into 

 nodules, and then into vesicles. The contents of these 

 become purulent, and finally dry into a crust, whose shedding 

 leaves a naked cicatrix. 



"In the dog, as in the sheep and pig, there are different 

 forms of the disease, and it is benignant or malignant 

 accordingly. . Puppies nearly always succumb, and, on a 

 necroscopical examination, it is not unusual to find variolous 

 pustules on the mucous membrane of the respiratory and 

 digestive organs. 



" Sanitary Measures. — The disease being contagious, 

 though the virus does not appear to be very volatile, it is 

 necessary to isolate the sick, and take due precautions 

 that the contagion is not carried from them to healthy 

 animals. 



" Curative Measures. — Careful dieting, a dry and mode- 

 rately warm dwelling, cleanliness, and abundance of fresh 

 air, are the essentials in the curative treatment." 



An emetic in the early stage of the malady has been 

 recommended as likely to be useful. Afterwards the treat- 

 ment must be purely symptomatic. 



MEASLES. 



An interesting case of this nature is described in a recent 

 report of the Epidemiological Society : 



" A dog licked the ha.nd of a child lying in bed, and on 

 whom the measles eruption was at its height. Twelve days 

 later the dog sickened, and suffered for two days with nasal 

 discharge ; and four days later died, with marked congestion 

 of the throat and air-passages. It has been held by some 

 authorities that measles in man is the analogue of distemper 

 in dogs — indeed, it has been urged that they are the same 

 diseases ; but this case contradicts sUch a view, for the dog 

 in question had, four years previously, gone through an 

 attack of distemper; and, although second attacks of the 



