838 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
a dog as a patient whose case, I confess, I did not understand f 
he would sneeze and snort, and rub his head and nose along the 
carpet, and fight at his nose and the corners of his mouth. I 
happened to say that the symptoms, in some respects, resembled 
those of rabies, and yet that I could not satisfy myself that the dog 
was rabid. The mention of rabies was sufficient, and in spite 
of my remonstrances the animal was destroyed. Of course, the 
previous symptoms led me to examine the nasal cavity among 
other parts, and I found two of these vermin, one concealed in 
the middle, and the other in the upper meatus, through neither 
of which could any strong current of air be forced, and from 
which the ascarides could not be dislodged. There is a similar 
account in one of the French veterinary periodicals. 
I know not what to advise you to do here, or how in fact 
clearly to ascertain the existence of the evil. 
The substance of the thirteenth and fourteenth Lectures, on 
Nasal Catarrh, or Distemper in Dogs, has been already presented 
to our readers in the third volume of “The Veterinarian,” 
at page 75. 
LECTURE XV. 
Nasal Catarrh in the Cat, Rabbit , and Poultry — Strangles. 
Distemper in the Cat. —There is another not very interesting or 
amiable, but very useful animal, which is a frequent victim to 
nasal catarrh and its sequelse,—the cat. The disease in the early 
stage is characterized, as in the dog, by defluxion from the 
nose and eyes, and frequent sneezing; but other portions of the 
membrane are sooner involved: cough succeeds; sore throat, 
inability to swallow, or even to masticate, swelling of the throat 
and head, drivelling from the mouth, rapid and extreme emacia¬ 
tion. The animal retreats to some comer, and there sits motion¬ 
less and lost, and dwindles away and dies. If the poor beast is 
neglected, the disease is more fatal than in the dog, and far more 
infectious. If a distempered cat is in the house, there is not a 
dog in it that will escape. 
The means of cure are the same, and are more efficacious* 
One or two emetics will, in the majority of cases, cut the matter 
short. The same medicines may, if necessary, be afterwards 
administered, but with a greater proportion of the mechanical 
vermifuge, for the disease is here invariably connected with the 
presence of worms. 
In Rabbits. —Rabbits are subject to a similar disease, com¬ 
monly known by the term snijfles. It more resembles glanders, 
inasmuch as it is longer and more decidedly confined to the 
membrane of the nose. The animal for many a week will exhibit 
no other indication of disease than a constant sniffling, and a 
