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SMALL-POX IN THE DOG. 
1 have never observed the abundant perspiration of which 
Barrier speaks — so abundant as to wet the place on which the 
animal lies. I have only seen variolous pustules suddenly deve- 
loping themselves on the head generally, the lips, the throat, the 
borders of the eyelids, the vulva, the anus, the prepuce, and be- 
tween the digitations of the paws. As I have already said, I 
have oftenest found them on the belly, the chest, the arms, the 
groin, and the internal surface of all the limbs. When they ex- 
tend farther, they attack the inferior parts of the chest, and the 
feet. 
As to the cure of the dogs attacked by variola, more benefit 
will be produced by an attention to diet than to any medical 
therapeutical treatment, especially when the disease is pursuing 
its ordinary course. The complications, however, which, when 
they occur, are, for the most part, very serious, must be combatted 
by the means which pathology indicates. I would, however, re- 
commend to be very cautious of administering any medica- 
ments that usually have powerful effect on the bowels. The 
purgatives and the vomits, which are so often recommended by 
the mere pretenders in the art, and, too much, by the false opinion 
of the public, are in the majority of cases fatal : they cause 
diarrhoea and dysentery, which destroy thousands of dogs. 
After light sudorific drinks, consisting of infusions of elder and 
of borage, and mucilaginous enemata, I have seldom applied any 
thing more than rubefacients to the skin. The rubefacients, 
among which I reckon the flour of mustard, are most useful when 
the eruption seems to be prematurely disappearing, and when 
the respiratory organs are considerably affected. 
The best mode of treatment, perhaps, consists in placing the 
animal in a temperature of from 50 to 55 ; and where there is 
sufficient ventilation to prevent any bad smell, and, during the 
period of eruption, to keep the patient on a limited diet. Rice, 
vermicelli, and panada, will afford sufficient nutriment. In many 
cases the appetite of the animal is scarcely lessened. A stricter 
watch must then be kept over him. Animal food should not be 
permitted until the desiccation of the pustules has commenced. 
The principal motive which induced me to publish this me- 
moir on variola in the dog, was a circumstance that appeared in- 
teresting to me under more than one relation. A person brought 
a young Newfoundland dog to my infirmary that had his belly, 
chest, neck, and limbs, covered with variolous pustules, and which, 
at the same time, had intense purulent pneumonia. He had been 
subjected to medical treatment, and, among other things, the ac- 
tual cautery had been applied to his chest. The proprietor, who 
thought that his dog had the disease commonly designated “ dis- 
temper ,” told me that he was much vexed that he had not 
