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matous keratitis may be treated with a few drops of a 1 to 100 solu- 

 tion of atropine. After the inflammatory symptoms of the eye 

 have subsided blowing calomel directly on the cornea produces good 

 results. The translator finds it also useful in the early stages, 

 when the ulcer is acutely inflamed. In catarrh of the upper air- 

 passages make the animal inhale vaporized solutions of creolia, 

 carbolic acid, or infusions of calomel and tar-water. In catarrh 

 of tha lungs and lobular pneumonia we use expectorants, such as 

 have been described under Diseases of the Lungs. Catarrh of the 

 stomach is to be treated with opium, tannic acid, and creosote. 

 In the acute nervous form of the disease we may produce good 

 results with bromide of potassium, chloral hydrate, or subcutaneous 

 injections of morphia, while motor paralytic symptoms should be 

 treated with strychnia and electricity. In severe depression stim- 

 ulants, such as ether and hypodermatic injections of camphor, may 

 be used. 



Infectious Bronchial Catarrh. 

 {False or Bench-show Distemper.) 



Within the last ten years bench shows have become a regular 

 institution, and also where large kennels have increased in number 

 the translator has frequently observed a disease that resembled 

 canine distemper in a great many of its characters, but the general 

 symptoms and course were such as to lead the observer to thiuk 

 that it is not the true contagious distemper, although it is decidedly 

 infectious, and for a better name has called it " bench-show dis- 

 temper" or " kennel distemper." Since making the translation 

 he has noticed that the author has also felt that there may possibly 

 be such a condition, and has intimated that fact under the head of 

 Catarrh of the Bronchia (page 120). 



Etiology. It is generally seen in large kennels, attacking one 

 after another or several at once. It may also be observed where 

 several dogs have been sent to a bench show, developing shortly 

 after they return. The period of incubation is three to five days. 

 Another peculiaiity is that one attack does not insure immunity 

 from another. The writer has observed several dogs that have 

 developed this disease, and the next year repeat the attack after 

 returning from a show. 



Pathological Anatomy. The lesions found are very similar 



