122. CANINE DISTEMPER 
perature; nevertheless, as in most instances the true 
disease is complicated by more or less severe symptoms, 
pyrexia generally supervenes. In some cases the tem- 
perature is fairly steady, whilst in others it is irregular, 
rising or dropping without apparent reason. If bron- 
chitis becomes severe, or if enteritis appears, the tem- 
perature will rise in proportion to their intensity, and 
still further rises when, pneumonia develops, reaching, 
perhaps, as high as 106° F. There have been even fatal 
cases in which no pyrexia has been observed from 
beginning to end, though these instances are undoubtedly 
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rare; for the abnormal temperature may have existed 
so early in the attack, and unaccompanied by other 
symptoms, that nothing amiss was suspected, and there- 
fore no record was taken. 
At the onset of a secondary infection of some im- 
portant organ, a rise of temperature is usually noted, 
and where the temperature throughout has been only 
slightly in excess of normal, such an elevation occurring 
suddenly would be a grave sign. 
The temperature in most cases of distemper is not a 
high one, though should the malady be accompanied in 
the early stages by a steadily maintained high tempera- 
ture this is not necessarily an indication of grave con- 
sequences, but, on the contrary, foretells, as a rule, an 
eventual recovery. Thus it is better to encounter a high 
