NASAL CATARRH IN THE CAT, &C. 339 
profuse discharge of mucus and muco-purulent matter from the 
nose. At length other portions of the respiratory? membrane, 
and soon after that the constitution itself, become affected, and 
a rapid loss of flesh ensues, and the animal pines away and 
dies tabid. 
Like glanders and distemper, this is both generated and com¬ 
municated. It is the frequent result of exposure to cold. A 
breeding doe, or a litter of young rabbits placed in a cold and 
damp situation, rarely cleaned and badly fed, will almost cer¬ 
tainly have the sniffles; and if a rabbit labouring under this disease 
is admitted or suffered to remain among the others, three-fourths 
of them will be lost. In most of the diseases of rabbits, the 
abdominal viscera are implicated to a great extent. Here is a 
specimen of hydatids taken from the mesentery of a rabbit that 
died sniffled. 
I have spoken of the sulphate of copper as a tonic, with its 
chief determination to the membrane of the nose. I have used 
it with considerable success in this complaint. It was given to 
some rabbits from the Zoological Farm, and the majority of them 
recovered. I afterwards sent some to a gentleman, whose stock 
ol rare breeds of rabbits was rapidly diminishing from this pest, 
and the plague was presently and effectually staid. Emetics 
produced extreme distress, and the copper was therefore given at 
once in solution, in doses of from one to two grains morning and 
night. In this quantity it acted evidently as a tonic : the appe¬ 
tite returned, condition was quickly gained, but the discharge did 
not entirely cease in less than six or eight weeks. 
In Poultry .—The feathered biped is even more subject to 
nasal catarrh than the quadruped. Many of our domestic poultry, 
confined in close and dirty places, and ill-fed, have the roup , 
characterized at first by swelling around the eyes, and discharge 
from the nostrils, and drivelling from the mouth, at first limpid, 
but soon becoming purulent and foetid. The crop is particularly 
hard. This, however, only shews that the digestive organs sym¬ 
pathize with this affection of the respiratory ones, but cannot be 
considered as a diagnostic symptom of roup. This complaint, 
although generated by bad management, is infectious in the 
highest degree. 
Of the cure I cannot speak with confidence. Common salt is 
often given with good effect. It usually acts as an emetic. The 
dose for an ordinary-sized fowl would be half a tea-spoonful of 
the saturated solution. Next comes cleanliness; the eyes and 
head generally should be frequently bathed with warm water. 
Warmth is indispensable—it is the secret of treating almost 
every morbid affection of the respiratory passages of our domestic 
