GENERAL DISEASES. 3 11 



LEUKEMIA. 



Lukaemia, or Leucocythsemia, is a term used to denote 

 '' white-cell blood" or white blood. It is a condition in which 

 there is a preponderance or increase in the number of these 

 bodies in the bloodj and is usually associated in the human 

 being with diseases of the spleen, liver, and lymphatic 

 glands. 



In the " Veterinary Journal " for July, 1875, the following 

 instance in the canine subject is recorded : 



" Mastronardi Innorenza, of the Naples Veterinary School, 

 in the ' Giornale delle razze degli animali utili e di Medicina 

 Veterinaria,' after giving some general indications as to the 

 nature, etc., of leukaamia, describes an instance of this disease 

 in a dog. The symptoms were those of combined lienal and 

 lymphatic leukaemia. The animal died. Innorenza was in- 

 clined to attribute the development of the malady to the al- 

 rerations due to the disease of young dogs commonly known 

 is 'distemper,.' the manifestations of which had preceded 

 ;faose of leukaemia in this case." * , 



AN^^MIA. 



Badly cared for dogs, and especially those of weakly con- 

 stitution, are, like human beings, subject to poverty or de- 

 ficiency in the quality of blood. In other words, they become 

 anaemic. Puppies are more likely to be so affected than 

 adult animals, and this is due to the method of rearing, or, at 

 all events, to neglect in avoiding causes which I shall men- 

 tion as giving rise to this condition of the circulation. 



Over-crowding, defective ventilation, stinted light, bad 

 drainage, innutritions food, are each productive of anaemia. 

 Observe the pallid countenance and" languid step of the indi- 



* " LeukiEmia "in the Dog," by Innorenza ; " Annales de , Med. 

 V^t^rinaire." 



