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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
long time after separation from the distempered animal. 
Young hounds, for example, brought in a state of health 
into a kennel where others have gone through the distemper 
seldom escape it. Kennels have been carefully washed with 
water, then whitewashed, and even repeatedly fumigated 
with muriatic acid, without any good results. The dogs 
generally sicken the second week after exposure to the con¬ 
tagion. It commences with inflammation of the substance 
of the lungs, and generally of the mucous membrane of the 
bronchia. The inflammation at the same time seizes on 
the membranes of the nostrils, and those lining the bones of 
the nose, particularly the nasal portion of the ethmoid bone. 
These membranes are often inflamed to such a degree as to 
occasion extravasation of blood. 
Dr. Jenner mentions a case which came under his observa¬ 
tion, of a dog dying within twenty-four hours after infec¬ 
tion, and in that short space of time the greater portion of 
the lungs was, from exudation, converted into a substance 
nearly as solid as the liver of a sound animal. When 
inflammation of the lungs is very severe, the dog frequently 
dies on the third day. 
By judicious treatment, the distemper might be, in all 
probability, entirely banished, or at least its features be very 
much mitigated. 
Colonel Hawker, in his “ Instructions to Young Sports¬ 
men,” mentions a case of a dog belonging to himself, on 
which he performed inoculation, by vaccine virus , or the 
matter of cow-pox, had the effect of preventing the dis¬ 
temper completely; and this was found an effectual pre¬ 
ventive by James Drearden, Esq., of Rochdale, Lancashire, 
confirmed by an extensive and successful practice. It would 
certainly be worth while to try this expedient, as being ex¬ 
ceedingly simple; and we have ascertained that in the 
