ON THE DISEASES OF DOGS. 
693 
From the results of this experiment, it has been calculated that 
1.312 grains of carbonate of lead were taken up by every imperial 
gallon of water (in its passage through the pipes) used at the ken- 
nel. There are now in the Royal pack twelve couples of young 
hounds, which have not tasted any portion of the water rendered 
impure by its passing through the old leaden pipes. They will be 
hunted during the approaching season. Should they escape the 
attacks of lameness to which the old hounds have been periodically 
subjected, it will be clearly and satisfactorily proved that the 
water, under the former system of supplying the kennel, ren- 
dered impure by the quantity of carbonate of lead it contained, was 
the chief if not the only cause of kennel lameness amongst the 
Royal buckhounds. 
ON THE DISEASES OF DOGS. 
MALADIE : COUGH, COLD, GLANDERS, CATARRH, CORYZA, AND 
GASTRO-BRON CHITIS. 
By the late M. HURTREL D’ARBOVAL. 
From Le Dictionnaire de Medicine Veterinaire. 
Young dogs are very subject to a disease usually severe, and 
often fatal, which attacks whole kennels at once. It is usually 
general, and not unfrequently commits great ravages among the 
dogs that are to be found in a very considerable extent of country. 
This disease, in its course, the causes by which it is produced, and 
the phenomena by which it is attended, greatly resemble nasal 
catarrh, as seen in the human being and other animals ; but it is 
almost invariably accompanied by other complications, and espe- 
cially by chorea, ophthalmia, and gastritis — complications which 
are chiefly, and in most cases only, met with in dogs affected by 
the distemper. This disease is as yet but very imperfectly known, 
and even the best veterinary works give an unsatisfactory ac- 
count of it ; and for this reason, that its characteristics, when it ex- 
ists simply and alone, have never been clearly described by any 
author, but all those phenomena which arise from various com- 
plications, or from sympathetic causes, have been mixed up and 
confounded with them. 
Paulet gives the name of malignant fever to this disease. Pil- 
ger, a German author, considers it to be fever accompanied by in- 
