332 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THl, DOG. 



exempt. One attack ensures immunity for the remainder of 

 the dog's life. 



" Symptoms. — The disease commences with fever, which 

 continues for two or three days, and is followed by the ap- 

 pearance — over a large surface of the body, though rarely 

 on the back and sides of the trunk — of red points, 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. 



" In the dog, as in the sheep and pig, there are different 

 forms of the disease, and it is benignant or malignant accord- 

 ingly. Puppies nearly always succumb, and, on a necroscopi- 

 cal 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 silk, 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 rec- 

 ommended as likely to be useful. Afterwards the treatment 

 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 



