CHAPTER III. 



FEVERS, AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



Simple Ephemeral Fever, or Cold — Epidemic Fever, or Influenza — Typhus 

 Fever, or Distemper — Rheumatic Fever — Small - Pox — Sympathetic 

 Fever. 



The dog is peculiarly liable to febrile attacks, which have 

 always a tendency to put on a low form, very similar in its 

 nature to that known as typhus in human medicine. This is 

 so generally the case, that every dog is said to have the dis- 

 temper at some time of his life, that name being given to this 

 low form of fever. Hence, an attack may commence with a 

 common cold, or any inflammatory affection of the lungs, 

 bowels, &c. ; but, this going on to assume the low form, it 

 becomes a case of genuine typhus fever, or distemper. Never- 

 theless, it does not follow that the one must necessarily end 

 in the other ; and so the dog may have simple fever, known as 

 " a cold," or various other complaints, without being subjected to 

 the true distemper. The fevers occurring in the dog are: ist, 

 Simple ephemeral fever, commonly called "a cold;" 2nd, Simple 

 epidemic fever, or influenza ; 3rd, Typhus fever, known as dis- 

 temper; 4th, Eheumatic fever, attacking the muscular and 

 fibrous systems; and, Sthly, Small-pox. 



