1374 FEVERS, AND THEIR TREATMENT. 
‘be ‘liberally provided, and all offensive mattérs removed as often 
as they are voided. 
_ Simmary of treatment.—In the early stage get the bowels into 
good order by mild doses of aperient medicine—(11), (13), or (15). 
Attend to any complication which may .come on, using a seton 
for the head, or the appropriate remedies for the chest or mixture 
for the bowels (6) if there is diarrhcea. For the exhaustion, when 
the violent symptoms are abated, give the tonic (63), and during 
the whole period attend to the diet, ventilation, cleanliness, and 
rest, as previously described. 
Vaccination has been recommended as a puede for distem- 
per, and has been largely tried both in foxhound and greyhound 
kennels, as well as among pointers and setters. The result has 
been that some people fancy it to be a sure preventive, and there 
is evidence that, for years after it has been adopted in certain 
kennels, distemper, which was previously rife in them, has been: 
kept at bay. On the other hand, a still more numerous party 
have found no change produced in the mortality among their dogs, 
and they have come, as a natural consequence, to the opposite 
conclusion. Reasoning from analogy, there is no ground for sup- 
posing that the matter of small-pox or cow-pox should prevent the 
access of a disease totally dissimilar to these complaints; but as 
experience is here the best guide, the appeal must be made to it 
in order to settle the question. Judging from this test, I can see 
no reagon whatever for the faith which is placed in vaccination, 
because there are at least as many recorded failures as successes ; 
and as we know that after any remedy there will always be a 
certain number of assumed cures held out by sanguine indi- 
viduals, so we must allow for a great many in this particular 
case. Distemper is well known to be most irregular in its 
attacks, and to hit or miss particular kennels, as the case may 
be, for years together; after which it reverses its tactics; and as 
vaccination is used at any of these various periods of change, 80 
it gains credit or discredit which it does not deserve. My own 
belief is, after trying it myself and seeing it tried, and after 
‘also comparing the experience of others, that vaccination is wholly 
inoperative ; but as others may like to test it for themselves, I 
-here append directions for the operation. 
