FOREST AND STREAM. 
pearance of the eyes, with widely dilated pupils, which was 
followed by champing of the jaws and convulsions, bending 
backward of the spine, neck uud bead < Oputholonos), and 
convulsive movements of all four ^extremities. Expected to 
find him dead the next morning (March 10), but was aroused 
at 0 a. m. by his pitiful cries, and on going out to see if I 
could render any assistance, found that be had in some man- 
ner cot himself out of the stable on to the brick pavement in 
the yard, apparently to defecute (for he had relieved his bow- 
els) and had not been able to get back again. 
It had rained shortly before day, and he was soaking wet. 
The welting seemed to have put a stop to the convulsions, 
for they had ceased. I lifted him back on to the hay, and 
his cries ceased. From this time he passed hie urine and 
faces as he lay, but the hoy being on concrete pavement, be 
was easily kept clean, the urine draining off, and the hay be- 
ing frequently replaced by a fresh supply. The dog was, of 
course, more or less besmeared, but not so much as one would 
expect, and not at any time very offensive to the olfactories. 
Urine very freo, and bowels moved naturally each day. Left 
side more affected than right ; tongue moist and but slightly 
coated. In protruding, showed no sign of parulysis ; coming 
out on cither side in licking his chops, equally well. (When 
the tongue is paralyzed on one side it is protruded toward 
the side of the paralyzed muscles.) Has apparently no fever 
—in fact, instead of being thirsty, lias not taken a drop of 
water since being placed under observation (March 0). 
Up to March 1?, is still able to raise himself on bis elbows 
to eat or take notice. Intelligence unimpaired ; will raise his 
paw to “shake hands ” when told, and is grateful for atten- 
tions shown him. Has grown perceptibly weaker ; lies habit- 
ually on the side, with almost constant twitching of the mus- 
cles and jerking of limbs (chorea). No diarrkoja. On the 
contrary, there was constipation at the commencement of the 
attack. , ....... 
On the 18th of March, can no longer raise himself on his 
elbows without assistance ; has to be held up while eating. 
Up to this time has suffered but little actual puiu, but on the 
17th had several paroxysms of pain, as also on the 18tb, and 
on the night of the 18th, had violent attack of tetanic 
spasms, with opistholonos and stiffening of the limbs at a 
right angle with thb body, accompanied with great suffering 
and sudden snapping of the jaws. On the following day was 
stronger ; could raise, his head to feed. Tetanic rigidity of 
muscles disappeared, but twitching remained. A new symp- 
tom appeared in diffuse parenchymatous inflammation of the 
cornea or left eye, the clear portion of the eye becoming, at 
first, cloudy, and then rapidly entirely opaque, milky white ; 
conjunctivu inflamed, giving out purulent discharge. Dis- 
charge of thick pus has been noticed from the urethra (penis) 
for several days, and a protrusion of the head of the penis so 
swollen that it cannot be retracted is a source of much pain 
and distress. A small pustular eruption shows on the abdo- 
men, evidently due to the constant soaking of the part in 
urine. . , . 
March 20, general condition better. Twitching continues ; 
appetite good ; eye worse ; white 6pot appears at centre of 
cornea, as though ulceration were commencing ; conjunctiva 
very angry, but not oedematous (clumom). No vascularity 
of the cornea. Lower ribs appear more prominent than natu- 
ral, but careful examination discovers no lung disease. No 
shortness in breathing. Is suffering great pain at times, 
which he gives expression to by short, plaintive barks, gene- 
rally three together, as “ow-ow-ow," “ow-ow-ow.” 
March 21, passed a bad night. Cry very distressing. Has 
changed to an “owp-owp-owp," still three together, and in 
kept up almost without intermission. Went to him at 0 a. si. 
and found him suffering agony, evidently from the inflamed 
eye, the globe of which is swollen and somewhat protruded. 
Punctured the cornea ( paraceutecis ) with a fine needle, and 
instilled into it a solution of atropia, four grains to the ounce 
of water. Also gave one-half of the following recipe : 
Rx.— Morphia? sul., gr. \ ; chloral hydrat, gr. xx ; syr. 
aurantij, oz. ij ; aqusc, oz. vj. Take 4 at one dose. 
Great relief followed, aud he slept the rest of the day. 
Toward night, very weak and prostrate. Eye appears better, 
but feet and legs cold. Noticed for first time, very strong, 
unpleasant odor as of stale, nmmoniacal urine, but not of that 
alone— a smell also as of commencing decomposition. 
March 22.— Not dead as I expected to find, but rather bet- 
ter. Good appetite ; uses forelegs better. Eyeball not 60 
much swelled ; appearance of cornea about the same. Strong 
smell still present, but not so offensive. 
March 23.— Bad odor disappeared ; spasmodic twitchings 
still continue ; end of penis exposed and swollen ( Paraphy - 
mom). Forces blackened by iron in pills. 
From this time forward to the end of the chapter the condi- 
tion remained just about the same, except that all symptoms 
of acute disease gradually- subsided, leaving a condition of 
chronic paralysis and chorea behind it. The white of the eves 
resumed their normal condition, the opacity of cornea in left 
eye partially cleared away, but emaciation increased instead 
of disappearing, which was worthy of remark when we re- 
member that the most nourishing food was taken abundantly. 
Paralysis of the left hind leg was complete with extreme 
wasting of the muscles, and nearly complete in the right hind 
leg. Muscular twitching constant in hind legs and in neck, more 
on left side. 1 watched carefully for three weeks after acute 
symptoms had subsided for signs of improvement, but the 
debility, emaciation and paralysis progressively increasing in- 
stead, I was forced, greatly ugainst my will, to the con- 
clusion that recovery was impossible, and that mercy direoted 
that his sufferings should be ended. 
Treatment— Nothing was given up to the time that Prince 
was shut up (March 0) for he was not looked upon as a sick 
dog until that time. March 7, being constipated, the follow- 
ing aperient was ordered : 
Rx.— Leptandrin, gr. ij ; Podophyllin, gr. ss.; Aloes.gr. ij.; 
Baponis, gr. ij.; make into one powder. 
This was administered in a piece of meat, and operated 
twice during the night, producing free, consistent discharges. 
March 9.— Having watchedhiin carefully for twodays, and 
found the paralysis increasing, ordered the following as a tonic 
to stomach and nervous system : 
Rx.— Ext. Nucis VomiciE, gr. vj.; Quini® Sul., gr. xviij.; 
Ext. Gentian®, gr. xxiv.; make in xij. pills, s. one three 
times a day. 
These pills were taken until the 17th, when they were dis- 
continued, and citrate of quinine and iron, gr. v., was ordered 
three times a day iuBtead. 
On the night of the 17th. March the convulsions were so 
violent that I administered chloroform, being fully aware of 
the danger to life in the dog from the use of this agent, but 
the case was desperate. The suffering was so great that it 
was evident, unless relieved, that the poor dog must quickly 
die. 
Chloroform was administered by drawing a cotton bag ove 
tlio bead, and pouring . ^ JJSSiSS 
The struggle was violent for a lcwj scuuuu , 
and he became quiet with stertorous breath ' loud barking. 
In half an hour the spasms returned with loud 
Repeated the chloroform, giving a larger do*o, jnjj J 
more completely under its 
lar; eyes Blaring wide open. Left him lortuemg • £ 
ing be would be dead in the morning. He , W “’ ^ Con 
next morning, not only alive but better and stronger. 
.to first of Ofttmeal porridge and milk, 
an^bre^^d milk““ hich be took freely during hr. wtolc 
iU A YCT^iemarkablo circumstance is Iho . f “ ct if’Vhn 
weeks from the time Prince was taken sick (March 6) he 
255 not one drop of water. When acute symptoms had 
subsided he look water sparingly. Then also beef soup was 
8d Tht affection 6 of the eye was treated by ^oppiDg into it a 
solution or sulphate of atropia (gr. iv, to oz. i.) three times a 
day, aud when the eyeball became distended and threatened 
rupture, by paraceutecis of the cornea (puncturing the ey 
with a needle and letting out the aqueous humor). The eye 
appeared to the unpracliced eye hopelessly lost, hut wm im- 
proving, and I have no doubt would have been fully rostored 
^^n^Aprif 28, after consultation with a number of friends 
who unjnimously pronounced the case hopeless. Prince took 
his last pill, one grain of strychnia, and his sufferings were 
quickly ended. , . , , ... 
I have called the disease here depicted with perhaps tedious 
minuteness, ccrcbro spinal meningitis , because an analysis of 
the more prominent symptoms points most clearly to that dis- 
ease. The paralysis of the hind extremities (paraplegia) the 
spasmodic twitchings of the muscles, convulsions, the left 
side being more affected than the right, the holding of the 
head one sided, the congestion of the conjunctive, all indicate 
unmistakably disease of the eerebro spinal axis. So also does 
the fuct that recovery from the paralysis, etc., did not take 
place on the subsidence of the acute symptoms, proving that 
the inflammation of the membranes of the spinal cord bad left 
behind it serious lesions within the spinal canal. Negatively 
the absence of fever, as shown by the moist tongue, good ap- 
petite and freedom from thirst, point In the same direction by 
excluding from the diagnosis any zymotic blood disease like 
jyiayh'ew in his article on distemper Q‘Dogs and Their 
Management," Edward Mayhew, 2d Am. Ed., p. 120 et scq.) 
gives a vivid description of all the symptoms which occurred 
iu this case, and in addition enumerates many which did not 
develop, such symptoms as indicate pneumonia, diarrhma aDd 
dysentery. He considers the disease (distemper) to be 
parallel with continued fever in the human subject, and 
continued fever in man means either typhus or typhoid 
fever. Stonehenge, 2d Ed., London, p. 368 et scq., calls dis- 
temper typhus fever , and is more explicit in his description of 
the disease, confining himself evidently to typhus and typhoid 
fevers proper, referring to intercurrent diseases as complications. 
An American authority (Hallock’s Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 
490) says that “ true canine distemper is of extremely rare 
occurrence, if, indeed, it ever makes its appearance in the U.S. 
or Canadas. As laid down by that eminent pathologist, Kol- 
liger, it is a disease attended by a catarrh, consisting essentially 
of an irritation of the brain and spinal marrow, and charac- 
terized by frequent convulsions tetanic in character." Lower 
down on the same page is the heading, “ Distemper , Pleuro 
Pneumonia, Lung Fever. ” 
Thus we have, according to the best authority in such mat- 
ters, at least four different diseases classed under the common 
name distemper , viz.: Pleuro pneumonia, typhus fever, typhoid 
fever and cerebrospinal meningitis. The same confusion in 
nomenclature exists with regard to horses and cattle. With 
the laity— those who possess no special knowledge of disease 
iu the dog, as well as many who pretend to great knowledge 
and know less— every sick dog has distemper, and is to be 
dosed accordingly with whatever quack nostrum happens to 
find favor with the individual. 
Truly in the present instance is a “little knowledge a dan- 
gerous thing," as many a valued “ friend of man " could testi- 
fy were the ghosts of departed canines permitted to reappear 
upon this mundane sphere. Such confusion of terms is not 
creditable to intelligent observers, and is to be greatly deplored 
as entirely subversive to intelligent treatment. 
On closing this report I have a word of caution as to the 
treatment of our sick four-footed friends : Sick dogs like sick 
men are frequently injured by over-medication, and are the 
more likely to be so injured because they cannot command 
language to express their ailments, nor protest against med- 
dlesome interference. Be not in too great haste to give Dr. 
Shight-Polk’s “ Dead Shot for Distemper," pills, or what not, 
but place the patient under most favorable hygienic conditions, 
Diet him and watch him. Then doctor his symptoms intelli- 
gently, giving no medicine without knowing why you are 
giving it, and being sure of the right dose. The proper dose 
for a dog has the same ratio to that for a human being, that 
the weight of the former bears to the latter. R. F. B. 
DEATH OF FLAKE. 
Editor Forest and Stbbam: 
It has just been brought to my notice that “ Memento Mori ” 
has to be written of the pointer Flake, and I cannot resist 
the impulse to put on record my opinion of him. Flake 
was bred by me and whb a grandson of my pointer George, 
facts 1 think not generally known, and for some reason less 
often acknowledged in the past than I could have wished, 
seeing that 1 have always formed so high an estimate of him 
as a representative small pointer. He is dead and gone now, 
poor fellow, and 1 only wish that I might write of him, “ Pars 
tui melior immortalis est.’’ Perhaps I might not err in doing 
so— at any rate I trust it may be so practically through a long 
line of descendants. I write this little notice of the dog, be- 
cause I think Flake was the best bench show small pointer 
ever saw, I think I speak free from prejudice, for, although 
he was bred by me, he passed entirely out of my ownership 
when he was three or four months old, and on the few occa- 
sions that I afterward saw him I thiDk I examined him as 
critically us 1 would any other dog. It was a matter of Bin- 
cere regret to me that he was not awarded the 
champion prize over Snapshot at the Westminster 
Club’s show last year, for so far as I am able 
to judge he was a much superior dog. I do not claim 
to be a special expert, but I do claim some considerable knowl 
edge of the points which go to make up a good pointer or set- 
ter, and the failure on the part of the gentleman who acted as 
judge on that occasion to point out to me any really weak 
points in Flake when challenged by ine to do so, only served! 
to confirm me in the opinion that he was well deserving of the 
prize. Speaking as an anatomist, Flake was about the best- 
put together dog of any kind I ever saw, there was no waste 
material from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail ; in this* 
respect he was very like his progenitor, George, only cast in a 
smaller mould. He had the same delicate and beautiful lines 
of form and the same grand development of muscle. There 
are those who thought his head too small, but the outlines 
were to my eyes,, very fine, and the balance of brain 
good! Who has not known a booby with a big 
head! It is Dot size so much as good proportions 
which tell It affords me great , satisfaction that I had the 
good fortune to find his mate in Mr. OrgiU’s Lill. It was at 
the Miuneola show some years ago that I first saw him and 
at once remarked him as the type cl dog likely to match well 
with Flake* I urged her owner to communicate with Mr. 
fiteele the owner of Flake, and I think the results have proved 
the correctness of my judgment. The owners of Daisy, Rose 
and others will at least admit it. It is not often nowadays, 
Mr Editor, that I find time to write on dog matters, but I 
could not allow the death of one I admired so much to pass 
without notice; it will be long I fear before we see bis su- 
perior on the show bench, and I am looking forward with he 
greatest pleasure to an examination of Ins piogeny, which I 
trust will be well represented at the coming show in this city. 
Believe me, sincerely yours, A. Russell Strage&ax. 
Dog Poisoning— A Shameful Aot .— Editor Forest am* 
Stream: My Newfoundland dog Hayes, winner of firstt 
prizes at Boston and Baltimore this year, was poisoBtdl 
last week at my farm at Oampville, Tioga County, N. \., undl 
died on the night of Friday, May 10. The act was commit- 
ted by some person or persons unknown, and without discov- 
erable cause. The poison used was that commonly known in. 
that locality as a “ dog-button," a lozenge made aud 6old for 
the especial purpose of killing dogs, and, as I am informed, 
easily procurable at any of the village drug stores. I have 
offered in the local papers a reward of fifty dollars for such 
information as will lead to the arrest and conviction of the 
person or persons who committed this villainous act, and shall 
use every effort to bring the parly to justice, not only to in- 
sure my own s..fety in the future, but to aid in putting an 
end to such shameful practices in other parts of the country. 
Yours, respectfully, Henry W- Livingston. 
164 IF. Fourteenth street , New York, May 14, 1878. 
It seems quite positive to us that when an apothecary or 
chemist sells any substance which is noxious or hurtful either 
to human beings or to animals, he should be held strictly ac- 
countable for such sale. We would be very glad to learn of 
the conviction of any apothecary selling the so-called “dog?- 
button," unless fully satisfied as to the respectability of the- 
person purchasing such poison. We believe that an action at 
law would hold in such a case. We regret exceedingly to- 
hear of Mr. Livingston’s loss, and only hope that the poison- 
ers and all those implicated in it will come to grief. 

Chesapeake Bay Dog.— In view of the increasing interest 
in this peculiar and useful breed of dogs, all the information 
we can gather concerning them is valuable, hence we invite 
extended correspondence on the subject. One writer says : 
“ I have read the letter of ‘Observer,’ in which he states' 
that he would ‘doubt the pedigree of any Chesapeake Bay 
dog which weighed over seventy pounds.’ As I have 
shot ducks for many years, and am thoroughly acquainted 
with this breed, or rather these breeds, of dogs, I must respect- 
fully differ from him. The only advantage of a small dog is 
that he is easy of transportation. In calm water he is probably 
equal to the beaver dog, but in the heavy seas which prevail 
in the fall of the year in the Chesapeake Bay, I much prefer 
the beaver dog at this time. I own a dog which has a pedi- 
gree of at least forty years. He weighs nearly one hundred 
pouuds, and in heavy seas is the fastest dog 1 ever saw. He 
will wind a duck over one hundred yards off, and I have seen 
him catch a crippled canvas back after a chase of nearly an 
hoar. He is liver colored, with close curly hair, and has all 
the sagacity and winniug ways of a regularly trained poodle. 
There are three straius of these dogs, the one the short curly 
hair, aud a dog which is highly spoken of— the red Winchesr 
ter. The last dog I am not familiar with. St. John.” 
Whelps— Detroit, May 19.— L. F. Whitman’s Blue Belton: 
Mell, whelped six dogs aBd seven bitches, eight black and 
white and five black, tan and white. They are by Burges’ 
Druid, winner of first premium with Queen Mab iu the brace, 
stakes at the late St. Louis Dog Show. Druid. 
Names Claimed.— Jas P. Crossley, of Titusville, Pa., 
claims the name of Rap for his liver and white cocker spaniel 
pup, by M. P. McKoon’s Captain out of MoKoon’s Best. 
Cablow. — W. E. Shedd, of Waltham, Mass., claims Ihe 
name of Carlow for his liver and white cocker spanier dog 
pup, purchased of Mr. M. P. McKoon and bred by him with, 
lull pedigree. 
Lohm an— Florence M.— E. R. Turnbull, Esq., of Law- 
renceville. Pa., claims the names of Lohrnan and Florence M. 
for dog and bitch puppies of Rcdgauntlet out of Quail II. 
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Louisiana. — New Orleans, May 16.— The bench show fever 
has struck us, and the only remedy appears to be to let it work 
out its natural course. We are talking of a bench show here 
in June or July. There is abundant material hereabouts, our 
sporting dogs aggregating something like 400, and the other 
breeds in equally good supply. Auomentidiriub. 
New York Dogs.— T he dog catchers begin their opera- 
tions June 1. Owners of valuable dogs should remember that 
eternal vigilance is the price of dog-flesh. 
Ferguson’s Sportsman’s Lantern. — Mr. A. Ferguson, a 
well-known sportsman of Brooklyn, has invented a new 
sportsman’s lantern, for which he claims material advan- 
tages over the old style. Its superiority is in its lightness, 
the euse with which it can be used, and the variety of uses 
to which it can be put. By an ingenious arrangement of 
leather straps the lamp may be securely attached to the hat, 
and by the use of the loop attachment the lamp may be used 
to light the tent or for a variety of other purposes. The 
staff attachment further adds to the usefulness of this veiy 
convenient and important part of a sportmau’s outfit. 
