66 CANINE DISTEMPER 
temperature became normal, and wound healed. It 
required careful attention until July, and even then was 
very thin, coughing, and showing signs of the severe 
illness it had gone through; and, as Mr. Hobday aptly 
remarks: “It makes one, as a practitioner, very careful 
about giving an emphatic opinion to a nervous client in 
favour of vaccination as a prophylactic, and an owner 
will wonder whether the risk is the greater from the 
remedy or from the disease itself.” 
Nevertheless, in my opinion, had these vaccinations 
been preceded by a dose of anti-distemper serum, these 
grave disturbances would not have been manifested. 
Mr. F. B. Carrell, writing in 7he Kennel, April, tort, 
said: “I have inoculated my dogs with Dr. Copeman’s 
anti-distempeér vaccine for nearly five years, and I think 
if I write my experiences, it may be of assistance to the 
dog-loving public in helping to arrest the appalling mor- 
tality from distemper in present-day dogs... . A friend 
told me of Dr. Copeman’s vaccine, and he had two 
months before inoculated two smooth collie pups, aged 
five months. At the time a few miles away was a 
kennel of griffons, all affected with distemper, and many 
were dying. To find the worth of the vaccine the 
nostrils of the two vaccinated puppies were pushed 
against those of the diseased griffons, and some of the 
mucus from the eyes and noses of the latter was in- 
serted into the nostrils of the inoculated collie pups and 
plugged with cotton-wool. One collie was not affected 
at all, temperature normal, appetite good; in fact, per- 
fectly healthy. The temperature of the other collie rose 
to 103° F., appetite capricious, and puppy rather irritable. 
This lasted about a week, after which he became per- 
fectly normal. Both these puppies were afterwards 
exhibited all over England, and neither has shown any 
further sign of distemper.... My next litter of puppies 
was inoculated at the age of four months. Three pups 
of the four had a good reaction, by which I mean that at 
the end of three or four days the temperatures rose to 
103° F., and remained so for about ten days, the patients 
being irritable and feeding indifferently. The remaining 
