356 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
resembling flea-bites, which are quickly transformed into 
nodules, and then into vesicles. The contents of these 
become purulent, and finally dry into a crust, whose shedding 
leaves a naked cicatrix. 
“Tn the dog, as in the sheep and pig, there are different 
forms of the disease, and it is benignant or malignant , 
accordingly. Puppies nearly always succumb, and, on a 
necroscopical examination, it is not unusual to find variolous 
pustules on the mucous membrane of the respiratory and 
digestive organs. 
“ Sanitary Measures—The disease being contagious, 
though the virus does not appear to be very volatile, it is 
necessary to isolate the sick, and take due precautions 
that the contagion is not carried from them to healthy 
animals. : 
“Curative Measures——Careful dieting, a dry and mode- 
rately warm dwelling, cleanliness, and abundance of fresh 
air, are the essentials in the curative treatment.” 
An emetic in the early stage of the malady has been 
recommended as likely to be useful, Afterwards the treat- 
ment must be purely symptomatic. 
MEASLES. 
“An interesting case of this nature is described in a recent 
report of the Epidemiological Society : 
“A dog licked the hand of a child lying in bed, and on 
whom the measles eruption was at its height. Twelve days 
later the dog sickened, and suffered for two days with nasal 
discharge; and four days later died, with marked congestion 
of the throat and air-passages. It has been held by some 
authorities that measles in man is the analogue of distemper 
in dogs—indeed, it has been urged that they are the same 
diseases ; but this case contradicts such a view, for the dog 
in question had, four years previously, gone through an 
attack of distemper ; and, although second attacks of the 
