CANINE DISTEMPER 
ITS COMPLICATIONS AND SEQUEL/ 
INTRODUCTORY 
French : Maladie des Chiens. Maladie du jeune age. 
German : Hundestaupe. Hundekrankheit. 
Spanish : Reuma. Italian ; Cimurro, 
DEFINITION 
“NINE DISTEMPER is a specific, malignant, contagious 
and infectious catarrhal fever, affecting all mucous 
membranes, but primarily those of the respiratory tract. 
It is chiefly, but not essentially, a disease of young 
animals of the canine and feline race, appearing sporadic- 
ally, enzodtically, or epizodtically, and frequently fraught 
with very serious complications and sequele. 
CHAPTER I 
HISTORICAL 
SYNONYMS AND HISTORY 
In consequence of the very diverse character of the 
symptoms often presented during an attack of distemper, 
the malady has been known variously as influenza, 
malignant catarrhal fever, canine plague, broncho-pneu- 
monia, gastro-enteritis, canine typhus, canine small-pox, 
and several other names, all of which, however, have 
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