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 disease after a bite. Measures to be taken when a human being 

 has been bitten. Difficult double duty of the canine pathologist 

 in dealing with rabies. Distemper: its fatality, specificity, 

 prevalence, and invasion. Its relations to similar disorders of 

 other species. Semmer's bacterium. Effects of the poison on the 

 blood. Types. Predisposing causes. Supposed spontaneous origin. 

 Differential diagnosis. Symptoms : General j eye ulceration. Pro- 

 gnosis. Nervous sequela. Intestinal form. Respiratory and hepatic 

 forms. Skin eruption. Post-mortem appearances by. Semmer. 

 Treatment. Disinfection and measures against contagion not 

 sufficiently enforced. Blaine's " virulent or putrid type." Medi- 

 cinal treatment. Debilitating measures to be specially avoided. 

 Nursing tonics. Persistency apt to be rewarded. Diphtheria : 

 Robertson's outbreak. Structural alterations. Three types : first, 

 second, third or nasal. Sequelae. Opinions of Law and Boss! on 

 this subject ; the latter records a case of conveyance from a child 

 to a dog. Letzerich on vaccination of a dog with lymph con- 

 taining diphtheritic material. Eczema EfizoOtioa : occurs in 

 dog. Pallin's case in a cat. Relapsing Fever, "Subba." 

 Anthrax : not frequent in carnivora. Intestinal form most fre- 

 quent, its causes and symptoms. Post-mortem appearances. 

 Rougieux' account of an outbreak in fox-hounds. Toussaint's 

 conclusions concerning anthrax vaccination of dogs. . The liability 

 of dogs to anthrax in the form of blebs or pustules in the mouth. 

 Conveyance of the disease by the bite. Variola Canina rare. 

 Its relations to smallpox and Var. ovina. Malignant or Benign. 

 Symptoms. Treatment. " Unicity " of this disease. Influence 

 of heat and cold on its development. Glanders : Lafosse, Polli, 

 Renault, Hertwig, St. Cyr, and Nordstrom on its conveyance to 

 dogs. Measles: a case of fatal communication from a child. 

 Cholera : Surgeon-Major Fairweather's Report on the cat epizooty 

 at Delhi. Tuberculosis. Does true " consumption " occur in the 

 dog ? Colin and Laulanie on false pulmonary tubercle due to 

 parasites. Nodular disease apparently tubercular. Causes. Here- 

 dity. Breeding errors. Tabes. Symptoms. Bowel and lung 

 cases. Treatment. Gowing on scrofulous change of the liver. 

 Septicemia : especially frequent in parturient bitches. Symptoms 

 and post-mortem appearances. NON-SPECIFIC DISORDERS : 

 Rheumatism. Frequent in sporting dogs. Causes. Acute or ^ 

 chronic. Richardson's experiment on the artificial production of 

 rheumatism. Special features of this disease in the dog. Lumbago. 

 Chest founder and Kennel lameness. Youatt's views. Treatment 

 of the chronic and acute forms. Prevention. Rickets : M. Voit's , 

 experimental study of the disease. Hill's remarks. Symptoms . 

 and differential diagnosis. Treatment. Leukemia : its study , 



