43 8 FEVERS, AND THEIE TREATMENT. 



The nasal cavities are filled with a purulent fluid. The dog. that 

 coughs violently at the commencement of the disease employs 

 himself, probably, on the following day in ejecting, by a forcible 

 expulsion from the nostrils, the purulent secretion which is soon 

 and plentifully developed. When he is lying quiet, and even 

 when he seems to be asleep, there is a loud, stertorous, guttural 

 breathing." 



SYMPATHETIC FEVER.. 



This term is applied to the fever which comes on either before 

 or after some severe local affection, and being, as it were, eclipsed 

 by it. Thus in all severe inflammations there is an accompanying 

 fever which generally shows itself before the exact nature of the 

 attack is made manifest, and though it runs high, yet it has no 

 tendency in itself to produce fatal results, subsiding, as a matter 

 of course, with the inflammation which attends it. The same 

 happens in severe injuries ; but here also, if there is no inflamma- 

 tion, there is no fever ; so that the same rule applies as where 

 there is an external cause. 



The treatment of this kind of fever is always merged in that 

 which is necessary for the attendant inflammation, and this being 

 removed the fever subsides ; it therefore requires no special notice 

 to be taken of it, or any remedy to be directed to it. 



