156 Specific and Contagious Diseases. 
Bronchitis, Enteritic diarrhoea, Jaundice, Eczema, &c., 
will be dealt with under these heads. 
As long as the disease can be confined to the catarrhal 
stages we have found as a rule the appropriate measures 
to be fairly successful. It is, therefore, impossible to lay 
undue stress on the importance of thorough cleanliness, 
an unremitting use of disinfectants for the floor, &c., of 
the habitation, with antiseptic dressings for the various 
points of discharge. In clearing the latter small pieces 
of soft rag should be used with extreme gentleness, 
and at the end of the operation consigned to the fire. 
The attendant also should wash the hands frequently, 
and always after operating on the patient, the “ Sanitas ” 
Fluid being used as directed. 
A Malignant form of Distemper occasionally makes its 
appearance, the general manifestations being those of 
extreme debility, diphtheria (which see) and severe skin 
eruption. In such cases little or no good can be done 
unless the appropriate medical treatment is adopted at 
the outset. (See a/so Eczema Epizodtica.) 
Eczema Epizootica, one of the scourges of the bovine 
race, is known to be transmissible to the dog and the cat, 
the medium of conveyance being the milk of diseased 
cattle. It is very probable that as this disease appears in 
conjunction with diphtheria as a malignant form of dis- 
temper, the source in all probability is the milk from 
dairies where not only diseased cattle are present, but 
the water used for washing the utensils, &c., is polluted 
with sewage. (See Diphtheria.) 
Glanders.—The dog is highly susceptible of the 
poison of glanders, which may be communicated in co- 
habitation, by direct inoculation, spreading the matter on 
open wounds, or injecting it within the veins. In the 
latter instance, the operation being carefully performed, 
the induced disease generally proves fatal; in the other 
instances, it is thought the effect of the operation is to 
create immunity from subsequent attacks. This, how- 
ever, is not sufficiently demonstrated to be set down as 
an admitted fact. Glanders in the dog is not marked, 
as in the horse, by chancrous sores on the nasal mem- 
