CONTAGIOUS DISEASES 103 



mon complication to the pneumonia of feline 

 distemper. 



Coincident with the foregoing symptoms 

 signifying the involvement of the stomach and 

 intestines, may appear persistent vomition, the 

 frequent passage of fluid and offensive feqes, 

 "sometimes blood-stained, pain upon abdominal 

 palpation. Emaciation is gradual but steady 

 except in mild cases that can be induced to take 

 nourishment. . 



Nervous symptoms such as convulsions, 

 spasms of groups of muscles, or deep coma, 

 may occur. 



In some cases the pharyngeal syrhptoms pre- 

 vail, the catarrhal and gastro-enteric being 

 subordinate, the latter sometimes completely 

 absent, the former always present, but some- 

 times much modified; in these the general tox- 

 emic symptoms develop very rapidly, the, pa- 

 tient lapsing into deep coma ending in death. 



Pregnant cats almost invariably abort. 



Treatment,. — In the absence of exact knowl- 

 edge of the causative factor all treatment must 

 of necessity be symptomatic and therefore to 

 some extent empirical. 



From close observation and careful review 

 of the initial symptoms and further course of 

 the disease, the author came to the conclt^sion 

 a good while ago that the primary infection 



