Diseases of the Dog. Ill 
are inflamed, and the disease being violent the effects 
upon the system, already influenced by the initial shock, 
is more than it can bear, death arising, not from the 
-result of the original injury, but from-the impediment. 
raised within the circulatory system. In other words, the 
constitutional disturbance in its magnitude and severity is 
the cause of death, and being the indication of the serious 
nature of the original injury, it is understood as being 
symptomatic in its real nature. 
_ Specific Fever is a similar, but more frequently a 
milder, form of constitutional disturbance, resulting from 
some form of animal poison within the system, and pro- 
pagated by contact with other subjects of the disease. 
Contagious fevers supply the needed examples, which 
differ from the subjects in the preceding class in their 
slow and insidious nature as a rule, the absence of violent 
shock, and few sudden deaths. 
Treatment of Fever.—The rule is embodied in the 
apt expression : “Remove the cause and the effects will 
_cease.” This is an easy procedure with Simple Fever. 
Change of diet, lodging, a supply of fresh air, light, and 
water; more frequent exercise, cleanliness, friction to the 
skin, k&e., will usually effect the desirable changes; or 
when the causes have been long applied, a moderate 
purgative, or a dose of alkaline medicine, is probably 
effectual. As regards Symptomatic Fever the case is widely 
different. The causes are more powerful and destructive. 
We cannot replace arteries, veins, and nerves, as well as 
muscular and other tissues destroyed or disorganised by 
violence in one form or other, or forces of the most 
subtle character which wait upon injury and disease in 
all their fulness and potency for evil. 
Inflammation.—The infallible signs are heat, pain, 
redness, and swelling. The first and second are usually 
evident, but owing to the dense covering of hair in many 
animals, redness and swelling are not so readily observed. 
In small pet animals, with light-coloured or white coats 
and thin skin, the difficulties are not so great. Inflam- 
mation is the result of violent causes, consisting of an 
‘increase of blood in the affected part, with more or less 
