322 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
As soon as the patient is able to walk, a short exercise 
each day may be given with benefit. The fresh air acts as 
a tonic, new scenery and objects divert the mind, while 
exercise encourages the natural habits and functions of the 
animal. 
Tincture of iron and cod-liver oil are advisable after the 
disuse of the strychnia, until recovery is complete. The 
diet throughout should be nourishing and digestible. and 
forcibly administered if the patient refuses to take it. Con- 
stipation, which is frequently present in chorea and paralysis, 
is best relieved by enemas. 
With regard to preventive measures for distemper, I have 
only to observe that due attention to hygienics is one of the 
most important considerations. Vaccination has been 
extolled and condemned—condemned justly, inasmuch 
as there is not a shadow of analogy between canine 
distemper and small-pox. The introduction of equine 
lymph has also been tried, and in like manner extolled, 
but where, again, is the resemblance between the disease 
known as “grease” in the horse, from which the lymph 
is supplied, and canine distemper? There is not the 
least similarity in the character of one and the other. Good ~ 
management—the dog not being brought in contact with 
the infective agents, or it may possibly be from possessing a 
degree of insusceptibility that the malady is not easily con- 
tracted—has far more to do with immunity from distemper 
than the imaginary power of vaccination, be the lymph 
what it may. 
Inoculation with distemper-virus on the system I have 
practised for many years, and discovered, by myself, is un- 
doubtedly a protection against distemper, and, even where 
by some peculiar idiosyncrasy the disease is contracted, it 
still reduces the risk of. death toa minimum. The value 
of this simple and inexpensive operation is now widely 
acknowledged at home and abroad. The Fox Terrter 
Chronicle,in commenting upon itin 1883, said: 
