ENZOOTIC DISEASE IN DOGS, &C. 79 
Versailles, and thither I proceeded, accompanied by M. Maillet, a 
pupil of some standing in our school. 
We found the dogs divided into three classes, and lodged in 
different compartments of the kennel. In the first were seven dogs 
stretched on the straw in a dying state. The second compartment 
contained twenty-five dogs that were seriously ill, although not so 
bad as the others, they being able to stand. The last division 
comprised twenty-eight dogs, which had only been recently 
attacked. Just outside the kennel were four dogs that had died 
on the previous day, and which we immediately opened; but before 
stating the post-mortem appearances, we found that we must relate 
the facts which we gathered from the statement of the master of 
the hounds, and from our own observations relative to the symptoms 
and progress of the disease. 
Symptoms and Progress. — The first signs of illness were lan- 
guor and loss of spirit. The mucous membranes of the mouth and 
eyes became pallid and yellow — the eyes were moist and inflamed — 
a slight but frequent cough tormented the patient — the pulsations 
of the heart became accelerated and violent in most of the patients, 
but slow and feeble in a few — the pulse was unchanged, but the ap- 
petite the same as usual. Such were the symptoms presented by 
the twenty-eight dogs last attacked. 
Within four or five days after the first appearance of the disease, 
the cough became more frequent, and took on all the characters of 
quinsy. It was very sonorous at first, but, after a lapse of eighteen 
or twenty-four hours, it became feeble, and ceased to be so frequent. 
The respiration was accelerated in some, while in others it was 
natural. The eyes became hourly deeper and deeper sunk in the 
head, and the discharge from them increased in like proportion. 
In many of the animals there was a discharge from the mouth. In 
some the pulse was hard and bounding ; in others it was low and 
almost imperceptible ; and in the greater number it was unequal 
and irregular, and seldom more rapid than is natural. The appetite 
was always good ; there was a tightness about the belly, and the 
faeces were hard, seldom passed, and mixed with blood. During 
the paroxysms of the cough the animals endeavoured to stand up, 
but at other times they lay on their side which pressed least on the 
lungs : those, however, which were very bad could not rise to 
cough. At this epoch the palpitations of the heart were quick and 
violent, and the animals became weaker, and wasted away rapidly. 
The respiration also became painful, the extremities cold, and at 
last the animal expired without a struggle. The seven dogs which 
we saw first were in this desperate condition. One only of them 
had a purulent discharge from the right nostril. 
Post-mortem Appearances.— -S ix out of eleven dogs which 
