430 FEVERS, AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



is essential to a cure, and a delicate dog like the greyhound 

 should have a cloth on him in cold weather. The greatest 

 cleanliness should be observed, but this should be done as far 

 as possible without making the kennel damp with water. Clean 

 straw must be liberally provided, and all offensive matters re- 

 moved as often as they are voided. 



Summary of treatment. — In the early stage get the bowels 

 into good order by mild doses of aperient medicine : (i i), (13), or 

 (15). Attend to any complication which may come on, using 

 a seton for the head, or the appropriate remedies for the chest 

 or mixture for the bowels (6) if there is diarrhoea. For the 

 exhaustion, when the violent symptoms are abated, give the tonic 

 (63), and during the whole period attend to the diet, ventilation, 

 cleanliness, and rest, as previously described. 



Vaccination has been recommended as a remedy for dis- 

 temper, and has been largely tried both in foxhound and 

 greyhound kennels, as well as among pointers and setters. The 

 result has been that some people fancy it to be a sure preventive, 

 and there' is evidence that, for years after it has been adopted in 

 certain kennels, distemper, which was previously rife in them, has 

 been kept at bay. On the other hand, a still more numerous 

 party have found no change produced in the mortality among 

 their dogs, and they have come as a natural consequence to the 

 opposite conclusion. Eeasoning from analogy, there is no ground 

 for supposing that the matter of small-pox or cow-pox should 

 prevent the access of a disease totally dissimilar to these com- 

 plaints ; but, as experience is here the best guide, the appeal must 

 be made to it in order to settle the question. Judging from this 

 test, I can see no reason whatever for the faith which is placed in 

 vaccination, because there are at least as many recorded failures 

 as successes ; and as we know that after any remedy there will 



