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not hare saved his life. Hence, it is desirable, not only 
for his own comfort of mind, hut for the sake of science, 
that post-mortems should be made when practicable. 
Some of the symptoms being very similar, and sometimes 
scarcely distinguishable, even to an experienced physi¬ 
cian, we may be conferring a benefit by reprinting here 
what HaUock’s “Sportsman's Gazetteer” famishes on 
this suhjeot. We quote 
True canine distemper is of extremely rare occurrence, 
if indeed it ever makes its appearance in the XJ. S. and 
Canadas. As laid down by that eminent pathologist, 
Kfilliger, it is a disease attended by a catarrh, consisting 
essentially in an irritation of the brain and spinal mar¬ 
row, and characterized by frequent convulsions tetanic 
in character ; its fatality being enhanced by the super¬ 
vention of inflammation of the lungs. 
The disease is wondrously fatal, only about ten per 
cent, making recoveries. 
The disease, generally known throughout the world as 
distemper, is commonly pleura-pneumonia, though many 
other disorders are ofttimes included under the same 
title. 
There appears to be two forms of ple.uro-pnenmonia to 
which the dog is subjected, one of which seems to be 
somewhat epizootic in character. This is then, perhaps, 
entitled to be called distemper. 
It may he that pleuro-pneumonia, as exhibited in the 
dog, only takes this form. Or it may be that it assumes 
two forms : the one due to irritation and inflammation, 
result upon the use of a morbific poison, and the other, 
from more natural causes. At all events, the disease, 
though not contagious, would seem to he infectious in 
one of its forms ; this may, however, he due to the dis¬ 
order, though not usually virulent in character. We are 
drawn to this belief, not only from the deductions of pa¬ 
thologists, hut from the results of personal observation, 
verified by ail autopsy of an animal which died from an 
ususually severe attack of so-called distemper but a few 
days previous to tbe writing of this article. The result 
of the examination will be found further on. 
It is very difficult to point out the diagnostic symp¬ 
toms of pneumonia to the non-professional observer, as 
we ascertain its extent, its situation, and every step of its 
progress, by means of the ear. All the symptoms that 
give us the most sure information respecting the nature 
of the disease, the event to which it tends, and the reme¬ 
dial treatment which it requires, spring out of the actual 
changes wrought in the pulmonary substance itself ; and 
these changes are disclosed to physicians by auscultation. 
It is necessary, therefore, in order to treat this disease 
understandingly and properly, you should know, 
first of all, what those changes are which are produced 
by inflammation of the substance of the lungs ; that you 
should know the morbid anatomy of pneumonia, as an 
inilispensible groundwork for the knowledge of its patho¬ 
logy. For this reason, if none other, the account of the 
autopsy given would be valuable in order to grasp more 
fully the rationale of treatment. 
The majority of cases of simple pneumonia in dogs is 
allowed usually to run its course unnoticed, no symp¬ 
toms being observed other than a slight cougli, or com¬ 
parative dull condition of ths animal; or it passes for a 
very slight attack of distemper, and runs its usual course, 
terminating favorably, thanks to tbe constitution of tbe 
animal, and not the so-called distemper remedies. But 
if the simple inflammation of the lungs involves the sur¬ 
rounding tissues, as may be the case from the outset, or 
as a result of pneumonia proper, it becomes an entirely 
different affair. The pleura (the serous membrane that 
lines the interior of the thorax) is most likely to be in¬ 
volved, and the disease becomes pleuro-pneumonia. 
A diagnosis and remedies for the disease follow in the 
succeeding pages, 503-608. 
OUR LONDON LETTER. 
Editor Forest and Stream : — 
At last England, land of fog and gloom, has been 
blessed with a few fine days, and the inhabitants thereof 
are cookie in consequence, and for a time, at least have 
given up all thoughts of emigrating en masse. Though it 
is the gloomy month of November, would-be suicides post¬ 
pone the event sine die, and only sharpen their razors for 
the purpose of shaving, and if they loll over London 
bridge, it is only to gaze with a kind of dreamy satisfac¬ 
tion on the sunny smile that dimples the muddy cheeks 
of old father Thames, and not with the idea of seeking a 
slimy grave in his depths on the anywhere — any where- 
out-of-the-world principle. 
We are all in hopes here of having a fine open winter; 
green fields, blue skies, no American telegrams, peace, 
and plenty, and general jollity. Amen ! We shall see. 
The Brighton Dog Show has been the event of the week 
so far as the canine world is concerned. By same mail 
I send you a prize list. A long and critical report of the 
show might not interest your readers, and would be. en¬ 
croaching on your space and good nature, so I shall not 
trouble you with one, more especially as our English sport¬ 
ing papers cannot fail to reach j r ou almost as soon as my 
letter. However, a word or,two about this important 
meeting may not be amiss. 
The entries numbered about seven hundred ; quality 
well up to the average. The show was held in tents at 
Preston Park, about a mile and a half from this London 
super mare. This was a somewhat breezy arrangement 
for the time of year, and we fear many poor dogs will suf¬ 
fer from inflamed mucous membranes in consequence. 
Mr. Giltrap’s beautiful Irish setter, Gurryower, a dog who 
is all over one of the best I have ever seen, and simply 
brimful of quality, was positioned right in front of an 
open draughty door-way. If he has caught his death I 
shall not wonder. The animals were well benched, and 
separated each from each by galvanized iron screens. I 
was, 1 believe, the first in England to suggest this arrange¬ 
ment, and I recommend it to the use of my Yankee cous¬ 
ins, It prevents much bloodshed and fighting. I was 
sorry to see many good dogs suffering sadly from mange ; 
they ought to have been removed or rather never admit¬ 
ted, 1 also saw one case of a dog down with distemper. 
This does not say much for the zeal of our vets, and i do 
but mention it here ia order that secretaries on the other 
side of the herring-pond may profit by the errors of those 
on this, 
Might I mention here, by the way, a plan of treatment 
by which I never fail to cure cases of mange. The canine 
patient is quarrantined ; that is, of course, put in a place 
by him self. A perfectly clean kennel, warm and dry, is 
told off to him, the bedding of which should be renewed 
at least twice a week. Before he is put in, he is washed 
well with mild yellow soap, the soap being well rinsed out 
of the coat, his skin is then rubbed all over with this lini¬ 
ment : —creosote, four drams ; olive oil, seven ounces ; 
mix, then add solution of potash, one ounce. The sores 
should also he dressed with a little of the green iodide of 
mercury ointment. The washing and subsequent dress¬ 
ing should ho done thrice a week at first, afterwards 
twice. Medicine : a dose of castor oil once a week, and 
Fowler's solution ; the dose of the latter is three drops for 
a very small dog, to seven or eight for a mastiff, gradually 
increased in three weeks to thrice that quantity thrice a 
day, unless the appetite fails and the tongue gets silvered, 
and the eye injected. In this case omit the medicine for 
three days, then begin again. Food, liberal and good. 
Water, abundant ; fresh air and exercise, plenty. Finish 
off with tonics and cod liver oil. 
Teu bloodhound dogs and five hitches put in an appear¬ 
ance. The objectionable dog was absent ; his own ex- 
knowing better than to show under such a judge as the 
Rev. Mr. Mellor, These animals were a grand show. Old 
Lueth XI is a true bloodhound all over ; ho is the sire of 
many winners. Next to him on the bench was Mr. 
Ray's Rupert. Rupert won third ; he is well bred, but 
somewhat plain; his ears shortish, and lacks the length of 
head, breadth of muzzle, and wealth of wrinkle, so char¬ 
acteristic of this noble breed. Number three was young 
Robin Hood, good in color, and a pup of promise. Num¬ 
ber six, the far-famed champion Rollo, by Roswell, out 
of Peeress. He is out and out the best hound on English 
benches. He had first and cup, of course; he is good 
color, the tan being as bright as burnished gold. Num¬ 
ber seven is Merton, a very tailing hound, though a little 
broad in skull and short in leather, but good in body. Mr. 
Nichols Nimrod won second (No. 8). He ia only a baby, 
but a very promising one. 
The judging of the bitches was. in my opinion, faulty. 
First went to Dido* who has not fulfilled the promise of 
her puppy hood. She has a good body, though a trifle 
die-haclced, and her beautiful color can never fail to 
saddi 
take a judge’s eye, but she is thick in skull, which consti¬ 
tutes an ugly fault in the opinion of the best men. Bel¬ 
ladonna, the bitch who was placed third, ought to have 
been first; she is very good, and her head is most taking 
and perfect. Diana has a capital loug head and good 
color, but lacks ear. Baron uess, who was second, was 
the bitch that was illustrated in the Field —Stonehenge’s 
is choice ; she has a fine long head but lacks leather every¬ 
where ; she is also beautiful in color. Mr. Morrill won 
first in the puppy class with a son of his Rollo, a grand 
youngster, and one who bids fail- to equal, if not to beat 
llis father. 
The mastiffs were, as usual, grand. Deerhounds you 
Americans do not seem to use, and I am sorry for it. 
They are most noble looking, whether in the field or on 
the hearthrug. 
The pointers were verj' good. The setters inferior in 
many respects to your own. Retrievers excellent. Span¬ 
iels good ; they are cheap in this country. Fox terriers, 
as usual, in swarms, and very fair all over. Dachsunde 
were poor. I hope to be able to give you, at some future 
day, a proper description of this dog of dogs ; he ought 
to be most popular in America. 
Collies held their age well. Good ones (pups) can now 
be bought for £5 5s. or £6 5s. Good bull ten-ievs were not 
numerous inBrighton, but the bull-dogs were fair. Some 
very good bull terriers put in an appearance, hut really 
A 1 dogs of this breed are somewhat rare now, even on 
English benches, though of the old fighting, thicker- 
headed puiinals, you generally find.plenty about the 
streets. 
Wire haired fox terriers are rather fashionable in Eng¬ 
land at present, and a more useful animal you could 
hardly possess, if game, which, however, they arenotin- 
variably. 
The next great English show will be Bii-mingham, and 
that will close the canine exhibitions of the present year, 
and Alexandra Palace is expected to open the ball for the 
year 1880. Gordon Stables, M. D., R.N. 
THE POINTER. 
BY JDSTONE. 
I CANNOT find out at what date the pointer was 
introdxiced into this country (England), but there 
seems little doubt that he is a later importation than 
the setter, and that he oi’iginally came from Spain, where 
dogs of the same class as the spaniel pointer, from which 
our brilliant performers descended, may there he met 
with occasionally, sleeping by the old greystone foun¬ 
tains, or jogging with solemn gait after the lazy mule¬ 
teer. * * 
Gradually the notion prevailed that the old Spaniard 
was too slow. He trotted, instead of galloping; he quar¬ 
tered his ground : he carried a high head, and this bril¬ 
liant style gave him command of wide parallels, whilst 
his exquisite power of scent served him instead of speed 
to such an extent that, only give him the wind, and he 
would crawl up to his game in a direct line. But fix long 
days he fagged, rolled in the sun, or wagging Ills short 
tail, followed panting at liis master’s heels. * * * To 
counteract this, it was found absolutely necessary to 
cross him with some lighter frame. * * * I am by no 
means sure that tbe foxhound was the only cross used to 
give pace aud fire to this well known English breed ; but 
I am sure that the pointer’s staunchness lias not been in¬ 
jured, Fresh colors have been produced, and these vari¬ 
ous colors have been the outward marks of what sports¬ 
men established as their own breeds. 
When the improved pointer first came to he fashiona¬ 
ble. a Duke of Kingston was well known for them ; after - 
wai-ds Mr. Edge, justly celebrated for his blotched dark 
liver and whites, with slightly bronzed cheeks. These 
dogs were large, well-framed, grand gpers, fine dogs on 
their game, anil delighting in their work) He x-ealized 
high prices, and what is better, he disseminated the right 
breed. 
Lord Derby, Mr. Edge’s contemporary, and the grand¬ 
father of the present Earl, was also a sincere admirer of 
the Edge Kennel, and bred from that strain in profusion; 
whilst the Lords Li tchfield, Sefton, and Stamford had, I 
believe, a breed of the same wonderful excellence. 
The late. Mr. Lang, the well known gunmaker of Cook- 
spur street, bred, 1 believe, from the kennels I have 
named; and from some source or other he obtained a lemon 
and white, or orange and white breed, which has been 
held in very high estimation for the last ten years or 
move ; although Mr, Antrobus, Mr. Comberbache and 
Mr. Darbyshire still hold their own with liver and white. 
If the pointer of the present day has a failing, that fail¬ 
ing is delicacy. He has been refined, perhaps, too much 
for hard and exhaustive work. He is a model of beauty, 
worthy of the capital material from which lie has de¬ 
scended. He is to be found now in every kenD el of mark, 
t.^itli all the attributes and the properties of the highest 
class, and with intelligence and observation deserving the 
name of reason. His airy gallop, his lashing stern, liis 
fine range, his magnificent dead-stop on game, his rapid 
turn to catch the wind of the body-scent, liis persever¬ 
ance under a trying sun to reach a faint and hardly per¬ 
ceptible stain of game borne to him on the breeze ; his 
glorious attitude as he becomes (directly liis wide-spread 
nostrils assure him he is right) stiff and motionless, with 
limbs wide-spread, and head alott, and stern head high, 
and his implicit obedience to the lessons he lias learned 
perhaps two or three seasons past—all these wonderful 
gifts put him on a level with that paragon of hounds with 
which he claims relationship. 
And such is the pointer of the present day. as he is to he 
found in the kennels of Mr. Whitehouse, of Ipsley Court, 
in Warwickshire ; of Lord Lichfield, Mr. Garth, Mr. 
Vernon Darbyshire ; or Mr. Brockton, of Farndon, a bet¬ 
ter dog than whose Bounce I never saw on game. 
When the first trial of dogs in the field took place, the 
chief distinctions were gained by Mr. Brockton’s Bounce, 
liver and white, for large dogs, and byGarth’s Jill, and 
Mr. Whitehouse’s orange and white namlet, for dogs of 
less size. Hamlet subsequently gained great and deserved 
popularity by winning the Bala Sweepstakes of twenty- 
five guineas each, against any dogs that could be brought 
against him. * * * This celebrated dog Hamlet lias been 
one of the most successful dogs of the (lay, numbers of 
liis offspring, combiniug first-class form with excellent 
St amina and nose. Mr. Wlxitehouse’s Rap, a dog of the 
same color, excels the old dog in outline, though in style 
of working Hamlet never will be surpassed. These or¬ 
ange and whites are closely connected with Mr. Lang’s 
breed ; Bob, the father of Hamlet, having been the prop¬ 
erty of a Mr. Gilbert, who had the mother fx-om Mr. 
Lang. 
The setter is the slowest dog to improve. No dog of 
that beautiful class has ever attained the speed of Mr. 
Garth's Drake, or equalled in form Mr. Whitehouse’s 
Rap .— From Notices of the Best Dogs of the Day, and their 
Breeders or Exhibitors. 
A Poet Who Disliked Dogs.— Alfred de Musset 
always declared he hated dogs for the reason that twice in 
his life an animal of the canine race had (some within an 
ace of wrecking his fortunes. 
The first time was at a royal hunting party when the 
poet, Louis Philippe’s guest, when a bird was flushed, 
fired hastily aud sent the citizen king’s favorite pointer 
to meet Cerberus. 
The second time was when, a candidate for the Acade- 
mie, De Musset went to pay the customary visit to an in¬ 
fluential Immortal whose chateau was in the environs of 
Paris. 
At the moment that the poet rang at the gate, an igno¬ 
ble whelp of incredible ugliness, covered with mud, rushed 
to meet him with joyous barks, and fawned upon him to 
the detriment of the poet’s new pantaloons. 
Disgusted asDe Musset was, it would have been peril¬ 
ous to drive off the Immortal's faithful dog, so he was 
compelled to let the frightful animal lick his hands, cover 
him with caresses and mud, and precede him to the draw- 
i ng-room. 
A moment later the Academician entered. De Musset 
noticed his embarrassment, at which he was not sur¬ 
prised, considexing the behavior of the animal. They ad¬ 
journed to the dining-room, followed by the dog, which, 
after giving vent to his delight by various gambols and 
cries, placed two muddy paws on the cloth, seized the 
wing of a cold chicken and began contentedly to devour 
it. 
"That's the most abominable brute 1 ever heard of,” 
thought De Musset, and continued aloud, “You are fond 
of dogs, I see.” 
“Fond of dogs?” said the Immortal. “I hate dogs.” 
“ But this animal here? ” 
“ I have only tolerated the beast because it is yours, 
sir ! ” 
“Mine?” said De Musset, “I thought it was yours, 
which was all that prevented me from killing him ! ” 
The two menroared with laughter, and Do Musset made 
a friend. 
Late that day a yellow dog orossed the frontier of the 
Rhine at Strausburg with the air of an animal that had 
scored upon the tablets of its memory a decidedly un¬ 
pleasant recollection, and headed for Constantinople with 
undiminislied oelerity I 
Names Claimed. — Mr.W. Harrison Bradley, of Chicago, 
claims the name Peg 'Woffington, for a bitch whelped in 
February, 1878, out of Ducat’s Ruby by Fowler's Ranger. 
Mr. Charles A. Eldon, 120 Hudson Street, New York, 
claims the name of Nimrod for his liver and white poin¬ 
ter dog. 
Mr. William B. Hammond, Bethlehem, Penn., claims 
the name of Flash for his liver and white pointer bitch. 
Mr. Owen Eckert, Hickory Run, Penn., claims the 
name of Bessie for his lemon and white pointer bitch. 
Mr. A, Pennington Carter, Lehigh Tannery, Penn., 
claims the names of Don H and Nina for his fiver and 
white pointer dog and bitch. All the above whelped 
June 20th, 1870. Carter’s Gipsey by Don. 
Mr. W. R. Elliot and Mr. F, Wintlirop claim .‘respect¬ 
ively, the names Rose and Mona for two Gordon setter 
puppies by Grouse out of Mall : purchased from Dr. J. S. 
Nevin, of London, Ontario. 
Mr. N. Elmore, of Granby Conn., claims the name of 
Queen for his white, black and tan English hare beagle 
pup, whelped September 30th, by Victor out of Lucy, 
