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moderate temperature is most favourable to the recovery of the animal. A 
frequent renewal or change of air, the temperature remaining nearly the same, 
is highly favourable to the patient; consequently close boxes or kennels 
should be altogether avoided. 
““T have often observed that the perspiration or breath of dogs labouring 
under variolaem isa very unpleasant odour. This smell is particularly 
observed at the commencement of the desiccation of the pustules and when the 
animals are lying upon dry straw; for the friction of the bed against the 
pustules destroys their pellicles, and permits the purulent matter to escape ; 
and the influence of this purulent matter is most pernicious. The fever is 
increased and also the unpleasant smell from the mouth, and that of the faces. 
In this state there is a disposition, which is rapidly developed in the lungs, to 
assume the character of pneumonia. This last complication is a most serious 
one, and almost always terminates fatally. It has a peculiar_character. It 
shows itself suddenly, and with all its alarming symptoms. It is almost im- 
inediately accompanied by a purulent secretion from the bronchi, and the 
second day does not pass without the characters of pneumonia being completely 
developed. The respiration is accompanied by a mucous rdle, which often 
becomes sibilant. The nasal cavities are filled with a purulent fluid. The dog 
that coughs violently at the commencement of the disease employs himself, 
probably, on the following day in ejecting, by a forcible expulsion from the 
nostrils, the purulent secretion which is soon and plentifully developed. When 
he is lying quiet, and even when he seems to be asleep, there is a loud, ster- 
torous guttural breathing.” 
SYMPATHETIC FEVER. 
This term is applied to the fever which comes on either before 
or after some severe local affection, and being, as it were, eclipsed 
by it. Thus in all severe inflammations there is an accompanying 
fever which generally shows itself before the exact nature of the 
attack is made manifest; and though it runs high, yet it has no 
tendency in itself to produce fatal results, subsiding, as a matter 
of course, with the inflammation which attends it. The same 
happens in severe injuries ; but here also, if there is no inflamma- 
tion, there is no fever; so that the same rule applies as where 
there is an external cause. ; 
The treatment of this kind of fever is always merged in that. 
which is necessary for the attendant inflammation, and this being 
removed the fever subsides ; it therefore requires no special notice 
to be taken of it, or any remedy to be directed to it. 
