498 
ON THE DISTEMPER IN DOGS. 
I will now change the subject, but on what other to fix I do 
not know, having tried several, and that without finishing one ; 
principally, I believe, because I have hardly ever made a remark 
worthy of notice confirmatory or contradictory; the occupation 
lias therefore appeared to me “ weary, stale, flat, and unprofit- 
able.” But while it has been thus with me, I have been mindful 
of others, and have often thought of making comments, and 
drawing from them what they have partly exposed to view; but 
here, again, the fear of being accused of presumption and ex- 
posing my ignorance has kept me back. I will now, however, 
try my pen at this, and hope it will be taken in good part. 
A correspondent in your last has alluded to a promised com- 
munication from our Walsall friend ; and I beg to inform him, as 
a college acquaintance, that I am very anxious to see it ; as every 
fatal case of the kind that I have witnessed has been connected 
with inflammation of the uterus, &,c. Another correspondent 
(Mr. King) in, as I think, the same number, favoured us with an 
article on the Fluke-worm in Sheep ; from which we may infer that 
they are, in his opinion, the sole and immediate cause of rot. 
Now, as I happen to differ in opinion, I shall be obliged (and in 
this I have no doubt many will join me) by his furnishing an 
essay on the disease itself, informing us how fluke-worms, how- 
ever great their number, occasion complete disorganization of the 
liver. Mr. King’s letter interested me also on another subject, 
as anticipating the time when, as they tell us, the mighty power 
of steam shall discard our patients not only from coaches, but 
even from waggons and ploughs : but this, like most other 
troubles, leaves us not hopeless ; and I comfort myself with 
the idea, that, though I may no longer be able to mount my 
cantering hack, I may yet live and ride. 
Your obedient servant, 
A Certified Practitioner. 
ON THE DISTEMPER IN DOGS. 
By Mr. S. Brown, Melton Mowbray . 
It is with considerable diffidence that I take up the subject of 
distemper in dogs ; and a sense of obligation induces me frankly 
to acknowledge the information that I have gained from Mr. 
Youatt’s valuable communications which have appeared in your 
journal on this subject. 
In a pecuniary point of view, canine practice is of somewhat 
minor consequence to the country practitioner ; but cases will 
