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per there is no restlessness, or at all events only a tendency to 
change the posture, whilst the hydrophobic dog is always on the 
watch and eyes every one with a wild suspicious gaze. The dis¬ 
tempered dog is certainly nervous but only from fear, while the 
hydrophobic dog knows neither fear nor pain, and will also resist 
to the death any threats or actual punishment. 
If the brain is much affected in distemper there is almost al¬ 
ways a fit or paralysis neither of which occurs in hydrophobia, 
and lastly the distempered dog eats nothing, while the hydropho¬ 
bic animal has a depraved appetite, and devours any filthy 
material which comes in his way. 
Distemper is liable to be confounded with any of the inflam¬ 
matory diseases which attack the brain, lungs, liver, stomach, or 
kidneys, but in the simple inflammation of any of these organs 
there is not the extreme and speedy emaciation and loss of 
strength noticed always in distemper. 
Treatment .—The management and remedies used in this dis¬ 
ease must vary with the stages of the malady, and must neces¬ 
sarily be considered under four heads, viz.: The periods of 
incipiency, reaction, typhoid and convalesence. The incipient 
stage, is, I am sure treated with more success in the following 
manner than any other. 
Put your puppy or dog as the case may be in a comfortable 
warm well ventilated place, avoiding of course damp or dark cel¬ 
lar ; a good dry bed and clothing if in a cold climate. Give a 
puppy ten months old the following:— 
Hyd. Chlor. Mite, grs. 2 
Pill Rhei C., Dr. I 
Soda Bicarb., grs. 30 
M. ft. pulv., Put in six capsules 
Sig. Give one every two hours until all are taken. 
At the same time put ten grains of the hyposulphite of soda 
to each pint of water the dog takes. Feed on boiled milk, soda 
crackers and a little well cooked mutton, it being easier digested. 
The stomach will bear more mutton than any other meat. Many 
